Life of John Mitchel, Volumen1

Portada
K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1888
 

Páginas seleccionadas

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 327 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Página 258 - I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Página 12 - All my life long I have delighted in rivers, rivulets, rills, fierce torrents, tearing their rocky beds, gliding, dimpled brooks kissing a daisied marge. The tinkle, or murmur, or deep-resounding roll, or raving roar of running water is of all sounds my ears hear even now the most homely.
Página 246 - Neither the jury, nor the judges, nor any other man in this court presumes to imagine that it is a criminal who stands in this dock.
Página 220 - I will not believe that Irishmen are so degraded and utterly lost as this. The Earth is awakening from sleep ; a flash of electric fire is passing through the dumb millions. Democracy is girding himself once more like a strong man to run a race ; and slumbering nations are arising in their might, and
Página 13 - Yes, all sights and sounds of nature are alien and outlandish — suggestive of the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle — save only the sparkle and the music of the streams. Well I know the voice of this eloquent river : it talks to me, and to the woods and rocks, in the same tongue and dialect wherein the Roe discoursed to me, a child ; in its crystalline gush my heart and brain are bathed ; and I hear, in its plaintive chime, all the blended voices of history, of prophesy, and poesy,...
Página 193 - Our independence must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. We can support ourselves by the aid of that numerous and respectable class of the community, the men of no property ;" and its avowed object was " to sweep the island clear of the English name and nation.
Página 93 - For actual measures of coercion, all Ireland laughs at that coward threat. The military uses (or abuses) of railways are tolerably well understood ; but it might be useful to promulgate through the country, to be read by all Repeal Wardens in their parishes, a few short and easy rules, as to the mode of dealing with railways in case of any enemy daring to make a hostile use of them.
Página 54 - What will a man not give for his own life? And what will it profit a man though he gain the whole world, if he at last lose his own soul ? These are questions propounded by the Savior who, is " the author and finisher of our faith.
Página 258 - Island, and he told me he had accepted the office of teacher to a school they kept here for small convicts — a very wretched office, indeed, and to a shy, sensitive creature like Walsh it must be daily torture. He stooped down and kissed my hands. 'Ah !' he said, 'you are now the man in all Ireland most to be envied.

Información bibliográfica