Walks Through Ireland in the Years 1812, 1814, and 1817: Described in a Series of Letters to an English GentlemanSir R. Phillips and Company, 1819 - 599 páginas |
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... scene , And the dull spot arose in bloom serene- Thus here the hand of Genius forms around The varied charms that deck the wondering ground ; And here the Muses haste - they gently press And hail , the spot which all the Virtues bless ...
... scene , And the dull spot arose in bloom serene- Thus here the hand of Genius forms around The varied charms that deck the wondering ground ; And here the Muses haste - they gently press And hail , the spot which all the Virtues bless ...
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... scene looked less beauti- ful ; and I was willingly prevailed on to enter the cottage , where our breakfast was already pre- pared by the ever - ready and willing hand of Irish hospitality ! Our fatigue rendered it also ex- tremely ...
... scene looked less beauti- ful ; and I was willingly prevailed on to enter the cottage , where our breakfast was already pre- pared by the ever - ready and willing hand of Irish hospitality ! Our fatigue rendered it also ex- tremely ...
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... scene , and excited no pleasing ideas . Whether marking the turbulence of the people , or arbitrary rule , the ... scenes we had left . The rest of our walk was wild and striking , and for nine miles we beheld neither house nor human ...
... scene , and excited no pleasing ideas . Whether marking the turbulence of the people , or arbitrary rule , the ... scenes we had left . The rest of our walk was wild and striking , and for nine miles we beheld neither house nor human ...
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... where we rest this - night , the mountain - torrent rolls impetuously . The scene is grand and striking , but fatigue com- pels me to bid you adieu . MY DEAR L. LETTER II . Wooden Bridge , County IN 1812 , 1814 , AND 1817 . 11.
... where we rest this - night , the mountain - torrent rolls impetuously . The scene is grand and striking , but fatigue com- pels me to bid you adieu . MY DEAR L. LETTER II . Wooden Bridge , County IN 1812 , 1814 , AND 1817 . 11.
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... The tower , which rears its head with imposing majesty in this solitary and silent scene , is very per- Conjecture has been baffled to account for fect . these buildings . I think they may have served both IN 1812 , 1814 , AND 1817 . 13.
... The tower , which rears its head with imposing majesty in this solitary and silent scene , is very per- Conjecture has been baffled to account for fect . these buildings . I think they may have served both IN 1812 , 1814 , AND 1817 . 13.
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abbey Achill admiration agriculture ancient appearance Ballinrobe Ballycroy beautiful castle Castlebar Catholic character charming cheerful church civil clergy Cong Connaught Cork cottage dear dear L demesne Dermot despotism distant Donneraile Dublin Edmund Spencer empire England English Enniscorthy Erris eyes feel fever Fitzstephens formed Galway genius handsome happy heard Henry the Second hospitality improved inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kilmallock king King of Leinster labour lake land late Leinster LETTER Limerick Lord Lough Lough Corrib Lough Mask manner melancholy ment miles Milesian mind ministers misery monarch morning mountains Munster nature Navan never noble numbers party passed pedestrian petty picturesque pleasing population Portumna racter reign religion repose residence respectable river ruined rural scene seemed seen Shannon shewed shore situation soon spot spread thing Tintern tion town Trotter venerable village walk Wexford young
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Página 44 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 504 - Or seeks the den where snow-tracks mark the way And drags the struggling savage into day. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed ; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks that brighten at the blaze , While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard Displays her cleanly platter on the board ; And haply too some pilgrim, thither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed.
Página 132 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Página 504 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread; No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Página 504 - Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes...
Página 219 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 420 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Página 504 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal...
Página 541 - England to confer with her Majesty about the affairs of this kingdom. " These differences were occasioned by the several alterations which had happened in ecclesiastical matters within the compass of twelve years.