The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices by C.A. Read (T.P. O'Connor).Charles Anderton Read 1879 |
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... Human Suffering , Chatham and Townshend , 34 The Reward of Benevolence , The Desolation of the Carnatic , 35 The Christian Mother , . The Blessing of Affliction , ELIZABETH RYVES ( d . 1797 ) , . 36 Dialogue in the Elysian Fields ...
... Human Suffering , Chatham and Townshend , 34 The Reward of Benevolence , The Desolation of the Carnatic , 35 The Christian Mother , . The Blessing of Affliction , ELIZABETH RYVES ( d . 1797 ) , . 36 Dialogue in the Elysian Fields ...
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... human fear The exalted sacrifice delays , In youth and beauty's flowering year , Serene she mingles with the blaze . The Indian on the burning iron bound , By busy tortures compass'd round , Beholds thee , and is pleased , With towering ...
... human fear The exalted sacrifice delays , In youth and beauty's flowering year , Serene she mingles with the blaze . The Indian on the burning iron bound , By busy tortures compass'd round , Beholds thee , and is pleased , With towering ...
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... human nature . Charles , answer me sin- cerely , have you a mind to be convinced of Sir P. Yes , sir , it would have contributed —and greatly have contributed to assist me . Eger . How so , sir ? Sir P. Nay , sir , it might have ...
... human nature . Charles , answer me sin- cerely , have you a mind to be convinced of Sir P. Yes , sir , it would have contributed —and greatly have contributed to assist me . Eger . How so , sir ? Sir P. Nay , sir , it might have ...
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... human nature . Now , sir , do you understand this doctrine ? Eger . Perfectly well , sir . Sir P. Ay , but was it not right ? was it not ingenious , and weel hit off ? Eger . Certainly , sir : extremely well . Sir P. My next boo , sir ...
... human nature . Now , sir , do you understand this doctrine ? Eger . Perfectly well , sir . Sir P. Ay , but was it not right ? was it not ingenious , and weel hit off ? Eger . Certainly , sir : extremely well . Sir P. My next boo , sir ...
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... human foresight could have predicted , " says Sir Jonah Barrington in his Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation , " the blow which the British cabinet was about to receive by one single sentence , or have foreseen that that single sentence ...
... human foresight could have predicted , " says Sir Jonah Barrington in his Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation , " the blow which the British cabinet was about to receive by one single sentence , or have foreseen that that single sentence ...
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Acres appeared arms beauty Betty born British Burke called Catholic Char character constitution court Covent Garden dear death Doncaster Dublin duty Eger ELIZABETH RYVES enemy England English entered eyes father favour fear feel gentleman give grace Grattan hand happy heart heaven Henry Flood honour hope House of Commons Ireland Irish JOHN BANIM Jugurtha justice Kilkenny king Lady land liberty live look Lord Aim Lord Colambre madam marriage ment Middle Temple mind minister nation nature never night o'er OLDBOY parliament parliament of England passion Patty peace person poems political returned Sir John song soon soul speech spirit sure sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought tion took Trinity College United Irishmen virtue Warren Hastings wish woman words wretched young Zounds
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Página 199 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 336 - My life is like the autumn leaf That trembles in the moon's pale ray; Its hold is frail, — its date is brief, Restless, and soon to pass away ! Yet, ere that leaf shall fall and fade, The parent tree will mourn its shade. The winds bewail the leafless tree, — But none shall breathe a sigh for me...
Página 198 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 35 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Página 200 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er...
Página 198 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Página 25 - You will observe, that, from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our Constitution to claim and assert our liberties as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity, — as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 25 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts...
Página 185 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags ; he may be naked, he shall not be in...
Página 92 - ... condemn my tongue to silence, and my reputation to reproach? Your executioner may abridge the period of my existence, but while I exist I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honour and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.