Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Volume 1

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R. Phillips, 1807
 

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Halaman 129 - Nations are governed by the same methods, and on the same principles, by which an individual without authority is often able to govern those who are his equals or his superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it...
Halaman 3 - ... frequently combines the most cultivated and harmonious traits, with the wildest and most abrupt images of scenic beauty. The groves, the lakes, the enchanted islands, and all the glowing charms of an Italian scenery which diffuses itself over the picturesque and cultivated scenes of Florence-courtf are suddenly replaced by a dreary heath, and a bold and continued mass of rocks, through which nature, time, and art, seem to have cut a deep and narrow defile which, entered at that hour sacred to...
Halaman 124 - A Capitulary was made in that Synod, wherein it is said, that in the last famine the spikes of corn were found to contain no seed,? the infernal spirits having devoured it all, and that those spirits had been heard to reproach them with not having paid the tithes...
Halaman 156 - It is wonderful how, in such precipitate rapidity of the fingers, the musical proportions are observed, and, by their art, faultless throughout. " In the midst of their complicated modulations and most intricate arrangement of notes, by a rapidity so sweet, a regularity so irregular, a concord so discordant, the melody is rendered harmonious and perfect, whether the chords of the diatesseron or diapente are struck together.
Halaman iv - Gouvernante debütiert mit einem Bändchen schlechter Gedichte, schreibt einen modischen Wertherroman mit irischem Schauplatz, entwickelt Witz und Geschick im Umgang mit Verlegern, entdeckt anläßlich ihrer ersten Englandreise eine Marktlücke: It was requisite I should leave my native country to learn the turpitude, degradation, ferocity, and inconsequence of her offspring; the miseries of her present, and the falsity of the recorded splendours of her ancient state. This ungracious information...
Halaman 116 - That certain great men of Ireland cross and withstand the enfranchisement of the Irish : whereunto (he adds) I must acquit the crown of England of ill policy, and lay the fault upon the pride, covetousness, and ill counsel, of the English planted here."* The line of demarcation *
Halaman 100 - Part of the citizens rose up in arms,"* put the magistrates to flight, and obliged them to return to a private life. This was supposed to be done in consequence of the law. One would...
Halaman v - Yet I came to the selfdevoted task, with a diffidence proportioned to the ardour which instigated me to the attempt; for as a woman, a young woman, and an Irish woman, I felt all the delicacy of undertaking a work which had for the professed theme of its discussion, circumstances of national import, and national interest. But though I meant not to appear on the list of opposition as a fairy amazon, armed with a pebble and a sling, against a host of gigantic prejudices : although to compose a national...
Halaman 113 - All these statutes speak of English rebels and Irish enemies, as if the Irish had never been in the condition of subjects, but always out of the protection of the...
Halaman 104 - ... because unable to resist oppression. It was with one of these beings, who in the strictest sense, daily performed " the penalty of Adam," and nightly, perhaps, assumed the daring character of insurgency, that I had some days back the following conversation : " Are you laying in your winter's fire :" " !No young lady, I am cutting this turf for his honour." " What is your hire by the day ?" — " Sixpence one half, and threepence the other half of the year*." " Have you a family ?" — " I have...

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