Rambles in the South of Ireland During the Year 1838, Band 1

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Saunders and Otley, 1839
 

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Seite 33 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Seite 115 - When we had received our boats, each of which was capable of containing one hundred and twenty men, I ordered one of them to be rowed about the water, in order to find out the most convenient place for landing upon the enemy ; which they perceiving thought fit, by a timely submission, to prevent the danger that threatened them ; and having expressed their desires to that purpose, commissioners were appointed on both sides to treat.
Seite 21 - ... summer, in the manner a peasant girl carries her basket behind her back ; — this is generally done by folding her cloak — her only cloak — round it, and thus throwing the whole weight of the basket on this garment, of course to its no small detriment. This same want of sense lurks, too, under the great heavy coat which the men wear during violent exertion in hot weather. In short, it is obvious in a thousand ways.
Seite 256 - This is the verse quoted by Dr. O'Brien, in his Irish Dictionary, to shew that the Banshee is solely an aristocratic appendage.
Seite 82 - Pickwick ' happening to reach Davy while he was at Damascus, he read a part of it to the Pacha, who was so delighted with it, that Davy was on one occasion summoned to him in the middle of the night, to finish the reading of some part in which they had been interrupted. Mr. Davy read in Egypt, upon another occasion, some passages from these unrivalled papers...
Seite 116 - had a kind of prophecy among them, that Ross Castle could not be taken until a ship should swim upon the lake ; and the appearance of this vessel contributed not a little to intimidate the garrison, and to hasten the capitulation. The said Hopkins lived to the age of one hundred and fifteen years, and died at Swords.
Seite 254 - I had heard lamentations And sad warning cries From the Banshees of many Broad districts arise ; I besought thee, O Christ, To protect me from pain ; 1 prayed, but my prayers They were offered in vain.
Seite 115 - I might be at liberty, with the greatest part of the horse and foot, to look after the enemy abroad, and to receive and convoy such boats, and other things necessary, as the commissioners sent us by sea. When we had received our...
Seite 114 - Broghill and Sir Hardress Waller, major-general of the foot. Being arrived at this place, I was informed that the enemy received continual supplies from those parts that lay on the other side and were covered with woods and mountains, whereupon I sent a party of...

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