Life of John Mitchel, Volumen1K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1888 |
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Página 263 - I should take it; for it cannot be, But I am pigeon-livered, and lack gall To make oppression bitter; or, ere this, I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Página 325 - All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Página 256 - 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 218 - 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 271 - Ahriman, and the waters that are below the firmament, of Ormuzd ? Do you take up a reproach against the lightnings for that they only shatter and shiver, but never construct ! Or have you a quarrel with the winds because they fight against the churches, and build them not ! In all nature, spiritual and physical, do you not see that some powers and agents have it for their function to abolish and demolish and derange — other some to construct and set in order ? But is not the destruction, then,...
Página 191 - 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.