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The spot chosen for the debarca- tion of the troops was probably in Church Bay.
The islanders, perceiving the tardy approach of the English, and fully
comprehending their object, had ample time to prepare for resistance. They drew
up all their ...
The spot chosen for the debarca- tion of the troops was probably in Church Bay.
The islanders, perceiving the tardy approach of the English, and fully
comprehending their object, had ample time to prepare for resistance. They drew
up all their ...
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Bauerlag ; as if the person j claimed the benefit of the laws known by this designa
- | tion, but considers it more natural to view it as derived I from the French parler,
whence the English parley. ] Replies'. THE TINCLARIAN DOCTOE. (3* S. v. 74.) ...
Bauerlag ; as if the person j claimed the benefit of the laws known by this designa
- | tion, but considers it more natural to view it as derived I from the French parler,
whence the English parley. ] Replies'. THE TINCLARIAN DOCTOE. (3* S. v. 74.) ...
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Can anyone inform me where I can get acollec- tion of Irish songs, ballads, &c,
made before the opening of the present century f S. Redmohd. Liverpool.
KILKENNY CATS. I have often wondered why none of your correspondents who
are ...
Can anyone inform me where I can get acollec- tion of Irish songs, ballads, &c,
made before the opening of the present century f S. Redmohd. Liverpool.
KILKENNY CATS. I have often wondered why none of your correspondents who
are ...
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Seite 338 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 389 - THE HISTORY OF OUR LORD, as exemplified in Works of Art, with that of His Types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament.
Seite 425 - PORTLOCK.- REPORT ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTY of LONDONDERRY, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh, examined and described under the Authority of the Master-General and Board of Ordnance. By JE PORTLOCK, FRS &c.
Seite 30 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Seite 341 - I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 43 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Seite 388 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Seite 300 - Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.
Seite 338 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 307 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.