The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland: Being a Series of Letters to the Montreal "Witness" as Special Correspondent to Irelandpublic subscription as a token of respect by the Irishmen of Canada, 1882 - 303 páginas |
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Página 81 - And let us not forget that that is the ultimate goal at which all we Irishmen aim. None of us, whether we be in America or .in Ireland, or wherever we may be, will be satisfied until we have destroyed the last link which keeps Ireland bound to England.
Página 229 - But many a gallant spirit there retreats across the plain Who, change but Kings, would gladly dare that battlefield again.
Página 106 - The beginning of strife is like the letting out of water; therefore, leave off contention before it be meddled with.
Página 14 - Well, but that is not neat, nor is it desirable; and when they get into service, most mistresses will object to that kind of finery, which is not suitable to the station in which it has pleased God to place them. I hope my female friends will excuse me for giving them these hints, for they are the result of long experience.
Página 57 - God bless the gray mountains of dark Donegal, God bless Royal Aileach, the pride of them all; For she sits evermore like a queen on her throne, And smiles on the valleys of Green Innishowen.
Página 18 - The great wonder to me is where the laborers who produce all this neatness and beauty live ? Where are the small farmers on whom the high rent presses so heavily ? Few houses, where such could by any possibility be housed, are to be seen from the roadside. There are so very few cottages and so very many gentlemen's houses that I am forced to believe that the peasantry have almost entirely disappeared. Yet I know there must be laborers somewhere to keep the place so beautiful.
Página 151 - He promised that all of the Cherokee money that had been paid to Hagerstrand would be refunded, but he would not fire him. He assured the group that no Cherokee money would be used to pay the manager's salary, even if he had to pay it out of his own pocket, which of course he will not do. A few others made remarks. Jess Ballard asked for a vote of confidence for the chief. All of the Presbyterian friends of the promoter (non-Indian) and some others stood but not all by any means. This episode has...
Página 100 - Enniskillen sits on an island, and is connected with the mainland by a bridge at either end of the town.
Página 290 - ... Seven kings' daughters here hae I slain Aye as the gowans grow gay, And ye shall be the eight o' them The first morning in May. — Lady Isabel and the Elf-knight; CHILD, No. 4. The Danish manner is as well known here as anything in a foreign tongue can be, from Jamieson's translation of Svend Dyring, given by Scott in the notes to the Lady of the Lake : 'Twas lang i...
Página 298 - Ireland when travelling there and seeing the evils arising from the existing tenure of land. I met with testimony everywhere of how often and how fatally the will of a lord interfered to prevent prosperity.