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... LIGHTS , " " 6 39 66 BLAKES AND FLANAGANS , " WILLIE BURKE , " " RED HAND OF ULSTER , " ETC. Rebellion ! foul , dishonouring word , Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal , ever lost or ...
... LIGHTS , " " 6 39 66 BLAKES AND FLANAGANS , " WILLIE BURKE , " " RED HAND OF ULSTER , " ETC. Rebellion ! foul , dishonouring word , Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd The holiest cause that tongue or sword Of mortal , ever lost or ...
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... lights . How then is it so little known , and when partially known so little cared for ? Precisely because the romance of our history is left in the background , -the facts , even when told over , are presented to the reader in the ...
... lights . How then is it so little known , and when partially known so little cared for ? Precisely because the romance of our history is left in the background , -the facts , even when told over , are presented to the reader in the ...
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... light , or earth has graves . " HE long dreary reigns of Eliza- | beth , and James , her successor , had passed over bleeding , suffer- ing Ireland like a hideous dream , and the persecuted Catholics of that country hailed the accession ...
... light , or earth has graves . " HE long dreary reigns of Eliza- | beth , and James , her successor , had passed over bleeding , suffer- ing Ireland like a hideous dream , and the persecuted Catholics of that country hailed the accession ...
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... light of history as amongst the most odious robbers and persecutors . Even the bold , blustering , barefaced villany of the royalist Strafford was better than the smooth , hypocritical , all - grasping , and no less ferocious dealings ...
... light of history as amongst the most odious robbers and persecutors . Even the bold , blustering , barefaced villany of the royalist Strafford was better than the smooth , hypocritical , all - grasping , and no less ferocious dealings ...
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... light of a bog - wood fire blazing and crackling behind them in the wide , open chimney of the hall . The short cloak or cochal which invariably completed the costume , hung more gracefully from the shoulders of one , while the broad ...
... light of a bog - wood fire blazing and crackling behind them in the wide , open chimney of the hall . The short cloak or cochal which invariably completed the costume , hung more gracefully from the shoulders of one , while the broad ...
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amongst Angus arms army Benburb Bishop blood brave Breffny Castle Castlehaven Catholic cause Charlemont chief chieftain Clanrickarde clans clansmen Colonel command Confederates Connor Coote Council cried death Donogh Dublin Dungiven Earl Emmeline enemy English eyes face faith Father fear followed friends Galway gentlemen glance hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven honour hope Horse Inchiquin Ireland Irish Island Magee Judith Kilkenny king knew lady laugh look Lorcan Lords Justices lordship Luke Wadding MacArt Maguire Malachy matter McMahon Mountgarret Muskerry Netterville never night noble Norman Nuncio O'Cahan O'Moore O'Reilly O'Rourke Ormond Owen O'Neill Owen Roe Owen Roe O'Neill Pale Parsons party peace poor prelate Preston prisoners Puritans Rapparees Rory Rory O'Moore sent Shamus sight Sir John Sir Phelim O'Neill Sir William Parsons smile soldiers stood strange sure sword tell thou thought tion Tirlogh turned Ulster voice word young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 147 - my bleeding country save ! ' Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? ' Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plains, ' Rise, fellow-men, our country yet remains ! ' By that dread name, we wave the sword on high, ' And swear for her to live — with her to die...
Seite 350 - Weep for him, ye women — your Beautiful lies cold ! 'We thought you would not die - we were sure you would not go, And leave us in our utmost need to Cromwell's cruel blow Sheep without a shepherd, when the snow shuts out the sky Oh ! why did you leave us, Owen? Why did you die?
Seite 284 - The grim Geneva ministers With anxious scowl drew near, As you have seen the ravens flock Around the dying deer.
Seite 284 - Hark ! hark ! it is the clash of arms, the bells begin to toll — He is coming ! he is coming ! God's mercy on his soul ! One last long peal of thunder — the clouds are cleared away, And the glorious sun once more looks down amidst the dazzling day. He is coming ! he is coming...
Seite 69 - No more — but hasten to thy tasks at home, There guide the spindle, and direct the loom: Me glory summons to the martial scene, The field of combat is the sphere for men. Where heroes war, the foremost place I claim, The first in danger as the first in fame.
Seite 118 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th
Seite 175 - Was laid on valor's crimson bed, Nor ever prouder gore Sprang forth, than theirs who won the day Upon thy strand, Thermopylae ! Shout for the mighty men Who on the Persian tents, Like lions from their midnight den Bounding on the slumbering deer...
Seite 148 - Catholics, chiefly Puritans, and that hereof we are informed, as well by divers and true remonstrances of divers provinces, counties, and noblemen, as also by the unanimous consent and agreement of almost the whole kingdom in this war and union, — we, therefore, declare that war, openly Catholic, to be lawful and just; in which war, if some of the Catholics be found to proceed out of some particular and unjust title— covetousness, cruelty, revenge, or hatred, or any such unlawful private intentions...
Seite 287 - And no man dared to look aloft, For fear was on every soul. There was another heavy sound, A hush, and then a...
Seite 149 - Whereas the adversaries do spread divers rumours, do write divers letters, and under the king's name do print proclamations, which are not the king's, by which means divers plots and dangers may ensue unto our nation; we therefore, to stop the way of untruth and forgeries of...