The Irishman in CanadaS. Low, Marston & Company, 1877 - 692 páginas |
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... taken place in the minds of Irishmen of a certain class . But let any Irishman who reads these lines ponder what I say : -You can never lose your own respect and keep PREFACE . vii the respect of others ; you can vi PREFACE .
... taken place in the minds of Irishmen of a certain class . But let any Irishman who reads these lines ponder what I say : -You can never lose your own respect and keep PREFACE . vii the respect of others ; you can vi PREFACE .
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... taken prisoner by O'Regan , lord of Meath , who extorted for ransom twelve hundred cows , sevenscore British horses , threescore ounces of gold , and sixty ounces of silver . Now the Normans having conquered all the neighbouring nations ...
... taken prisoner by O'Regan , lord of Meath , who extorted for ransom twelve hundred cows , sevenscore British horses , threescore ounces of gold , and sixty ounces of silver . Now the Normans having conquered all the neighbouring nations ...
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... taken place , he threw himself into Dublin , but only to find himself sur- rounded by an army , and blockaded by a Danish fleet . While he was suffering from want of food , and negotiating with a view to capitulate , Donnell Cavanagh ...
... taken place , he threw himself into Dublin , but only to find himself sur- rounded by an army , and blockaded by a Danish fleet . While he was suffering from want of food , and negotiating with a view to capitulate , Donnell Cavanagh ...
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... taken away under Anne , to be restored , however , under the House of Hanover . The war of the revolution showed what the two great races in Ireland could do , and what the mixtures of these races could do . The Ecclesiastical History ...
... taken away under Anne , to be restored , however , under the House of Hanover . The war of the revolution showed what the two great races in Ireland could do , and what the mixtures of these races could do . The Ecclesiastical History ...
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... taken . On the 24th July , 1692 , Sarsfield - as gallant a soldier and as stainless a gentleman as ever lived - commanded the brigade , and was publicly at the close . In the March fol- lowing he was made a Marshal de Camp . On the 28th ...
... taken . On the 24th July , 1692 , Sarsfield - as gallant a soldier and as stainless a gentleman as ever lived - commanded the brigade , and was publicly at the close . In the March fol- lowing he was made a Marshal de Camp . On the 28th ...
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Página 183 - FAINTLY as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St Ann's our parting hymn...
Página 203 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Página 177 - What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Página 128 - To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. Take the instant way; For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue : If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Página 183 - The rapids arc near and the daylight's past. Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl, But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh, sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas
Página 563 - And love of Ombre, after death survive. For when the Fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements their souls retire. The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name.
Página 24 - The country was portioned out among the captains of the invaders. Strong military institutions, closely connected with the institution of property, enabled the foreign conquerors to oppress the children of the soil. A cruel penal code, cruelly enforced, guarded the privileges, and even the sports, of the alien tyrants. Yet the subject race, though beaten down and trodden under foot, still made its sting felt. Some bold men, the favourite heroes of our oldest ballads, betook themselves to the woods,...
Página 23 - The battle of Hastings, and the events which followed it, not only placed a Duke of Normandy on the English throne, but gave up the whole population of England to the tyranny of the Norman race. The subjugation of a nation by a nation has seldom,, even in Asia, been more complete.
Página 268 - Search not to find what lies too deeply hid, Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid ; Nor climb on pyramids, which thy head turn round Standing, and whence no safe descent is found.
Página 128 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...