Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of Ireland, in 1810Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1826 - 355 páginas |
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... morning . The beauty of this bay has been often noticed . Some person who was a great traveller , or was willing to be thought so , remarked that it bore a striking likeness to the Bay of Naples , and hundreds have echoed the ...
... morning . The beauty of this bay has been often noticed . Some person who was a great traveller , or was willing to be thought so , remarked that it bore a striking likeness to the Bay of Naples , and hundreds have echoed the ...
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... , but never till this morning did I witness the novelty of a disinterested custom - house . I stepped out of it into the long coach , as it is called , which was waiting for us : it was completely filled 18 SKETCHES OF DUBLIN.
... , but never till this morning did I witness the novelty of a disinterested custom - house . I stepped out of it into the long coach , as it is called , which was waiting for us : it was completely filled 18 SKETCHES OF DUBLIN.
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... morning on some people I had formerly known ; they received me with all the kindness so congenial to the hearts of Irishmen . — I had two invitations to dinner for that day , but declined them . Both the gentlemen who gave them were mar ...
... morning on some people I had formerly known ; they received me with all the kindness so congenial to the hearts of Irishmen . — I had two invitations to dinner for that day , but declined them . Both the gentlemen who gave them were mar ...
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... morning ; but I can tell you one thing , by J - s , she has dd black- looking gums of her own . " - In addition to this treat of calves - head , I had a comfortable dinner of fish and stewed veal ; ( I must here mention , as an ...
... morning ; but I can tell you one thing , by J - s , she has dd black- looking gums of her own . " - In addition to this treat of calves - head , I had a comfortable dinner of fish and stewed veal ; ( I must here mention , as an ...
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... morning , and saw little alteration in them since I was here last . It was predicted , by some of its violent op- posers , that the Union would cause grass to grow in the streets of Dublin : these political prophecies have not yet been ...
... morning , and saw little alteration in them since I was here last . It was predicted , by some of its violent op- posers , that the Union would cause grass to grow in the streets of Dublin : these political prophecies have not yet been ...
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Página 280 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 308 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Página 279 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 276 - Intreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee : For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge : Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God : Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried : The LORD do so to me, and more also, If ought but death part thee and me.
Página 276 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from «• following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 198 - Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
Página 340 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
Página 53 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Página 72 - This was the noblest Roman of them all; All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 197 - And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.