The Emerald Isle: A PoemJ. J. Stockdale, 1812 - 159 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 149 - it is a most beautiful and sweet country, as any under heaven, being stored with many goodly rivers, replenished with all sorts of fish, most abundantly sprinkled with many sweet islands and goodly lakes, like little inland seas, that will carry even ships upon their waters
الصفحة 153 - me of such Subjects !" What a comment on that nefarious penal code which Mr. Burke so justly describes to be " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for
الصفحة 99 - village in Ireland ! PAUL preached in the wilderness ! " He called forth," said Mr. Grattan in the Irish House of Commons, " the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious: in feeding the lamp of charity he exhausted the lamp of life. He comes
الصفحة 109 - years only did his personal power mitigate the government But though no longer feared by the great, he was not forgotten by the wise — his influence, like his writings, has survived a century, and the foundations of whatever prosperity we have since erected, are laid in the disinterested and magnanimous 'patriotism of SWIFT."-—
الصفحة 99 - interrupt the repose of the pulpit and shakes one world with the thunder of another. The preacher's desk becomes a throne of light—around him a train, not such as crouch and swagger at the levee of viceroys—horse, foot, and dragoons; but that, wherewith a great genius peoples his own statecharity in
الصفحة 153 - oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man
الصفحة 127 - comfort is with Mary fled, And ceaseless anguish shall her loss deplore, 'Till age and sorrow join me with the dead! Adieu each gift of nature and of art, 'That erst adorn'd me in life's early prime, The cloudless temper, and the social heart, The soul ethereal, and the
الصفحة 136 - short, it was found to be an extensive mine, wrought by a set of people at least as expert in the business as the present generation. Some remains of the tools, and even the baskets used in the works, were discovered, but in such a state that,
الصفحة 131 - is most prevalent where the people have least communication with the adjacent plains, and speak pure Irish ! Let us hope that the day is not far distant when this spark, which still lingers, shall be suffered to extend itself, and perhaps should barbarism again overcloud our hemisphere, Ireland may shine in future times, as
الصفحة 149 - adorned with goodly woods, even fit for building of houses and ships, so commodiously, that if some princes of the world had them, they would soon hope to be lords of