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 xviii
... present day , as well as to the other civilized nations of the world . To this resolution I have since adhered , without any relaxation ; ! without being shaken or disheartened by the want of sympathy or encou- ragement ; I yearned ...
... present day , as well as to the other civilized nations of the world . To this resolution I have since adhered , without any relaxation ; ! without being shaken or disheartened by the want of sympathy or encou- ragement ; I yearned ...
Pagina xix
... present . His power of moving a flock to tears , or entertaining a private circle in this peculiar strain of Irish eloquence is the theme for general admiration ; this being so , and his refined and solid classical education considered ...
... present . His power of moving a flock to tears , or entertaining a private circle in this peculiar strain of Irish eloquence is the theme for general admiration ; this being so , and his refined and solid classical education considered ...
Pagina xx
... present day , as well as Homer of old , be allowed to shape words to answer his metre . What are written sounds but mere signs of ideas , and , therefore , one shape is as good as the other , especially when either shape is intelligible ...
... present day , as well as Homer of old , be allowed to shape words to answer his metre . What are written sounds but mere signs of ideas , and , therefore , one shape is as good as the other , especially when either shape is intelligible ...
Pagina xxii
... present comfortable supports of life . " He states that he has made " abundant historical discoveries " since he came to Ireland , and only hopes that his " poor attempt will invite others to make much greater and more valuable ...
... present comfortable supports of life . " He states that he has made " abundant historical discoveries " since he came to Ireland , and only hopes that his " poor attempt will invite others to make much greater and more valuable ...
Pagina xxiv
... present day . It is much to be regretted that the Ladies of Ireland should have been so long debarred from enjoying that poetry which no other country has ever yet surpassed , and which I shall not here attempt to describe , because I ...
... present day . It is much to be regretted that the Ladies of Ireland should have been so long debarred from enjoying that poetry which no other country has ever yet surpassed , and which I shall not here attempt to describe , because I ...
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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 mór 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.