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 vi
... letter conveys DR . PETRIE'S opinion as to the use and age of the monument , & c . " MY DEAR DR . SPRATT , " 67 , Rathmines Road , 21st October , 1853 . In obedience to your request that I should give you my opinion respecting the ...
... letter conveys DR . PETRIE'S opinion as to the use and age of the monument , & c . " MY DEAR DR . SPRATT , " 67 , Rathmines Road , 21st October , 1853 . In obedience to your request that I should give you my opinion respecting the ...
Pagina xix
... letters , as Bishop of Maronia , whilst in Killala , continued to throw such confusion into the enemies rank , he had to visit the wild and romantic Erris , therein the poetic flame was still more fanned - and oh ! Croagh Patrick , what ...
... letters , as Bishop of Maronia , whilst in Killala , continued to throw such confusion into the enemies rank , he had to visit the wild and romantic Erris , therein the poetic flame was still more fanned - and oh ! Croagh Patrick , what ...
Pagina xxii
... letter from the Marquis of Downshire- " The Ancient History of Ireland is certainly very curious and interesting , though it appears to us at present to be enveloped or mixed up with much fable . I , for one , would be extremely happy ...
... letter from the Marquis of Downshire- " The Ancient History of Ireland is certainly very curious and interesting , though it appears to us at present to be enveloped or mixed up with much fable . I , for one , would be extremely happy ...
Pagina xxiii
... letters . But where is the proof ? Per- haps in the library of Stowe ; or the Bodleian ; or in Trinity College , Dublin ; or scattered over the world , as in Denmark , & c . But we have none of these records ushered forth to the world ...
... letters . But where is the proof ? Per- haps in the library of Stowe ; or the Bodleian ; or in Trinity College , Dublin ; or scattered over the world , as in Denmark , & c . But we have none of these records ushered forth to the world ...
Pagina xxxi
... letters of introduction to the Irish kings . So magnificent were O'Brien's gifts to them , that the monastery for stateliness , finish , and gorgeousness , surpassed anything of the kind of those days . They purchased , with a portion ...
... letters of introduction to the Irish kings . So magnificent were O'Brien's gifts to them , that the monastery for stateliness , finish , and gorgeousness , surpassed anything of the kind of those days . They purchased , with a portion ...
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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
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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.