The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 1, Part 2W. B. Kelly, 1851 - Ireland |
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... native minstrelsies . * Not less distinct in their native cha- racter are the ballads and songs of modern Ireland . The best of these - and many of them are full of spirit , wild grace , and passionate beauty - have proceeded from the ...
... native minstrelsies . * Not less distinct in their native cha- racter are the ballads and songs of modern Ireland . The best of these - and many of them are full of spirit , wild grace , and passionate beauty - have proceeded from the ...
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... native poetical literature ? No , no - English poetical literature , merely . Then , why is there made no mention of Longfellow ? Why , because he is a foreigner , and that would be to notice foreign - It would be no such thing ! We ...
... native poetical literature ? No , no - English poetical literature , merely . Then , why is there made no mention of Longfellow ? Why , because he is a foreigner , and that would be to notice foreign - It would be no such thing ! We ...
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... the treaty of Amiens , this Abbé returned to his native Languedoc , and young Sheil was sent to a school at Kensington , established by the son of the celebrated Prince de Broglio , and in 376 THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW .
... the treaty of Amiens , this Abbé returned to his native Languedoc , and young Sheil was sent to a school at Kensington , established by the son of the celebrated Prince de Broglio , and in 376 THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW .
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... native history : André Du Chesne , " Historia Francorum Scriptores coetanei , ab gentis origine usque ad Phillipi IV . tempora , " 5 volumes , folio , 1636–49 . " Historia Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui , res ab illis gestas explicantes ...
... native history : André Du Chesne , " Historia Francorum Scriptores coetanei , ab gentis origine usque ad Phillipi IV . tempora , " 5 volumes , folio , 1636–49 . " Historia Normannorum Scriptores Antiqui , res ab illis gestas explicantes ...
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... natives cling with a fiercer and more desperate pagné de sommaires , de tables et de notes " ( continué par Haudiquier , Precieux , Clement , Poirier , et Brial ) , 1738–1832 , 19 volumes . Col- lection des Mémoires relatifs à l ...
... natives cling with a fiercer and more desperate pagné de sommaires , de tables et de notes " ( continué par Haudiquier , Precieux , Clement , Poirier , et Brial ) , 1738–1832 , 19 volumes . Col- lection des Mémoires relatifs à l ...
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Page 369 - The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Page 355 - This body dropt not down. Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Page 557 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
Page 360 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 376 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time; the autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.
Page 534 - No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. "No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave, on the Sabbath day.
Page 364 - Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends ; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home ; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends, He had the passion and the power to roam ; The desert, forest, cavern, breaker's foam, Were unto him companionship ; they spake A mutual language, clearer than the tome Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glass'd by sunbeams on the lake.
Page 370 - For woman is not undevelopt man, . But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain: his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care...
Page 355 - At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners hollo!
Page 458 - Jeremy Collier, Sir?' JOHNSON. 'Jeremy Collier fought without a rival, and therefore could not claim the victory.' Mr. Henderson mentioned Kenn and Kettlewell; but some objections were made: at last he said, 'But, Sir, what do you think of Leslie?' JOHNSON. 'Charles Leslie I had forgotten. Leslie was a reasoner, and a reasoner who was not to be reasoned against.