A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland, by the Deputy Governor, Two Members of the Court, and the Assistant Secretary of the Honorable Irish Society, of London, 18251825 - 103 páginas |
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A Narrative of an Excursion to Ireland: By the Deputy Governor, Two Members ... Gilpin Gorst,Irish Society London Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 31 - Nae cotillon brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick in shape o...
Página 25 - Aloft, the ash and warrior oak Cast anchor in the rifted rock...
Página 103 - That it is fit that his lordship do endeavour with his majesty's forces to wound, kill, slay, and destroy, by all the ways and means he may, all the said rebels, and their adherents and relievers ; and burn, spoil, waste, consume, destroy, and demolish, all the places, towns, and houses, where the said rebels are, or have been, relieved and harboured, and all the hay and corn there ; and kill and destroy all the men there inhabiting able to bear arms.'!!.
Página 11 - In a morning up we rise, Ere Aurora's peeping : Drink a cup to wash our eyes, Leave the sluggard sleeping : Then we go To and fro, With our knacks At our backs, To such streams As the Thames, If we have the leisure. When we please to walk abroad For our recreation, In the fields...
Página 97 - Verney, the colonels Warren, Fleming and Byrne, were killed in cold blood; and indeed all the officers, except some few of least consideration, that escaped by miracle.. The Marquis of Ormond, in his letters to the king and lord Byron, says, ' that on this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself and. any...
Página 70 - Concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the honourable society of the governor and assistants of London, of the new plantation in Ulster.
Página 97 - officers and soldiers of Cromwell's army promised quarter to such as would lay down their " arms, and performed it as long as any place held out, which encouraged others to yield.
Página 28 - On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Página 13 - Java's palmy isle, A spacious plain extends its upland scene, Rocks rise on rocks, and fountains gush between; Soft zephyrs blow, eternal summers reign, And showers prolific bless the soil, — in vain! — No spicy nutmeg scents the vernal gales, Nor towering...
Página 98 - On this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself, and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity; the cruelties exercised there for five days after the town was taken, would make as many several pictures of inhumanity as are to be found in the book of Martyrs, or in the relation of Amboyna...