Ancient Ireland: Her Milesian Chiefs, Her Kings and Princes. Her Great Men. Her Struggles for Liberty. Her Apostle St. Patrick. Her ReligionJ. Mullany, 1855 - 324 pagine |
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Pagina xxiii
... four different species of composition ( the Heroic Poem - the Ode - the Elegy - and the Song ) , others yet remain unattempted by trans- lation . The Romance in particular , which unites the fire of Homer , with the enchanting wildness ...
... four different species of composition ( the Heroic Poem - the Ode - the Elegy - and the Song ) , others yet remain unattempted by trans- lation . The Romance in particular , which unites the fire of Homer , with the enchanting wildness ...
Pagina xxxv
... Four of the Northumbrian kings alone murdered , and three deposed within the space of forty - one years . Charles II . , of France , having heard of such atrocities , and though he had intended to send large presents to England ...
... Four of the Northumbrian kings alone murdered , and three deposed within the space of forty - one years . Charles II . , of France , having heard of such atrocities , and though he had intended to send large presents to England ...
Pagina xxxix
... explore it . The talented lecturer gave a history of ancient Irish art and civilization , com- mencing from the battle of Moyturra , which , according to the Four Masters , took place 1897 years before the Christian era xxxix .
... explore it . The talented lecturer gave a history of ancient Irish art and civilization , com- mencing from the battle of Moyturra , which , according to the Four Masters , took place 1897 years before the Christian era xxxix .
Pagina xliii
... Four Masters " will find that men , whether lay or cleric , distinguished by learning , are styled " Master . " We like- wise find from a letter of Bishop Mollony , writing from the Continent to Dr. Tyrrell , Bishop of Clogher , in 1689 ...
... Four Masters " will find that men , whether lay or cleric , distinguished by learning , are styled " Master . " We like- wise find from a letter of Bishop Mollony , writing from the Continent to Dr. Tyrrell , Bishop of Clogher , in 1689 ...
Pagina 9
... four in happy existence , Adam , Cain , Abel , and Eve , And Cain killed Abel without one fault . VII . Ham , son of Noah , that was not of happy deeds ( traits ) . It is from Ham were descended the monsters without man- Atlas , on ...
... four in happy existence , Adam , Cain , Abel , and Eve , And Cain killed Abel without one fault . VII . Ham , son of Noah , that was not of happy deeds ( traits ) . It is from Ham were descended the monsters without man- Atlas , on ...
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Parole e frasi comuni
Æneid Ailbe alluded amongst ancestor ancient Apostle Archbishop Ardfert Armorica Banba battle Belgic Gaul Bishop Brennan Cæsar called Cashel Castle Castlerea Catholic Celtic century chief Christ Christian Church Clonfert Connaught Danaans descended Dirge Dublin Earl Eire English Erin fact faith father Fiech Gadelas Gadelians Gael Galway Gaul Greek Heber Hence Heremon holy honour hymn illustrious Ireland Irish language island James John Keash Keating Kerry Kilkenny king land Lanigan Latin learned Leinster letter Lord Mac Carthy Mac Donnell Mayo Meath Milesians Milesius monarch Morini Munster nation native Nemedians Niul noble O'Brennan O'Brien O'Connell O'Connor O'Flaherty O'Neill Ogygia Ormond passage Patrick Picts poem poet prelate priests prince Queen's County reader reign religion Rome Roscommon saint scholar Scota Scythians sons STANZA tower town translation tribe Tuam Ulster verse word writers written
Brani popolari
Pagina 49 - Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are Men ? And Men that they are brethren ? Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of Nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love...
Pagina 9 - Come ye, therefore, let us go down, and there confound their tongue, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Pagina 184 - ... although there should none of them fall by the sword nor be slain by the soldier : yet thus being kept from manurance and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves, and devour one another.
Pagina 76 - God. I wish that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of this mercy belongs.
Pagina 79 - ... neither the Israelites were more cruelly persecuted by Pharaoh, nor the innocent infants by Herod, nor the Christians by Nero, or any of the other pagan tyrants, than were the Roman catholics of Ireland, at that fatal juncture...
Pagina xxiv - It is really astonishing of what various and comprehensive powers this neglected language is possessed. In the pathetic, it breathes the most beautiful and afFecting simplicity; and in the bolder species of composition, it is distinguished by a force of expression, a sublime dignity, and rapid energy, which it is scarcely possible for any translation fully to convey; as it sometimes fills the mind with ideas altogether new, and which, perhaps, no modern language is entirely prepared to express. One...
Pagina 161 - Hic mihi quisquam mansuetudinem et misericordiam nominat? lampridem equidem nos vera vocabula rerum amisimus: quia bona aliena largiri liberalitas, malarum rerum audacia fortitudo vocatur, eo res publica in extremo sita est.
Pagina 24 - The Irish is a language completely sweet, In aid of which no foreign e'er did meet ; A copious, free, keen and extending voice, And mellifluent, brief; for mirth most choice. Although the Hebrew language be the first, And that, for learning, Latin be the best, Yet still, from them, the Irish ne'er was found One word to borrow, to make its proper sound.
Pagina 2 - Unless the fixed decrees of fate give way, The Scots shall govern and the sceptre sway, Where'er this stone they find, and its dread sound obey.
Pagina 40 - Multum in longitudinem et latitudinem patet. Hominibus inter se nulli fines ; neque enim agrum exercent : nee domus illis ulla, aut tectum, aut sedes est , armenta et pecora semper pascentibus , et per incultas solitudines errare solitis. Uxores liberosque secum in plaustris vehunt , quibus , coriis imbrium hiemisque causa tectis, pro domibus utuntur.