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
... seen near the ancient Parish Church of St. Audeon , I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that it belongs to a class of monuments - most probably sepulchral -- which are now rarely to be met with in Ireland , and which appears ...
... seen near the ancient Parish Church of St. Audeon , I have no hesitation in expressing my opinion that it belongs to a class of monuments - most probably sepulchral -- which are now rarely to be met with in Ireland , and which appears ...
Pagina xxix
... seen in another part of this preface . The classical scholar is acquainted with the richness , the artistic skill , and polished execution of the chariots and armour of the Grecian chiefs at the Trojan war , and Juno's chariot . The ...
... seen in another part of this preface . The classical scholar is acquainted with the richness , the artistic skill , and polished execution of the chariots and armour of the Grecian chiefs at the Trojan war , and Juno's chariot . The ...
Pagina xxxv
... seen in De Avila and Peter Walsh . Now let us come nearer home and ask pure and pious England how stands her account ; — Twenty - eight Saxon kings , part killed by each other , part murdered , by their own subjects , others deposed and ...
... seen in De Avila and Peter Walsh . Now let us come nearer home and ask pure and pious England how stands her account ; — Twenty - eight Saxon kings , part killed by each other , part murdered , by their own subjects , others deposed and ...
Pagina xxxvii
... seen that a foreign author gives within eight of as many kings as O'Flaherty . Anselm , the learned Archbishop of Canterbury , in one of his " Thirty- six Epistles , " ( contained in Dr. Ussher's collection of the " Epistles of the ...
... seen that a foreign author gives within eight of as many kings as O'Flaherty . Anselm , the learned Archbishop of Canterbury , in one of his " Thirty- six Epistles , " ( contained in Dr. Ussher's collection of the " Epistles of the ...
Pagina xlii
... seen , in the Royal Irish Academy , a portion of a manuscript purporting to be a history of Kerry , and in which it is said that in that county there was , in the 17th century , a great rivalry in dirgic poetry , in which " Mr. John ...
... seen , in the Royal Irish Academy , a portion of a manuscript purporting to be a history of Kerry , and in which it is said that in that county there was , in the 17th century , a great rivalry in dirgic poetry , in which " Mr. John ...
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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.