Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pages |
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... Torlogh , " said he , addressing the first comer , a wild , shock- headed varlet , having his hair hanging in glibbes or knotted elf - locks over his shoulders — and wearing the old national cos- tume of the shirt of saffron - dyed ...
... Torlogh , " said he , addressing the first comer , a wild , shock- headed varlet , having his hair hanging in glibbes or knotted elf - locks over his shoulders — and wearing the old national cos- tume of the shirt of saffron - dyed ...
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... Torlogh ! You were insane to try it and I scarce less so to permit the trial . Come back , I say ! I will not have head - and you my fos- ter brother ! ” blood on my your But the other man , who had accompanied Torlogh to the brink ...
... Torlogh ! You were insane to try it and I scarce less so to permit the trial . Come back , I say ! I will not have head - and you my fos- ter brother ! ” blood on my your But the other man , who had accompanied Torlogh to the brink ...
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... Torlogh's paternal uncle . " He will soon build a pile of bog pine , that will make the pass as light as noonday ; and the stream is lowering too , for a certainty . It has shrunk half a foot since I stood here . Look you , my lord ...
... Torlogh's paternal uncle . " He will soon build a pile of bog pine , that will make the pass as light as noonday ; and the stream is lowering too , for a certainty . It has shrunk half a foot since I stood here . Look you , my lord ...
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... Torlogh ! Bravely done in faith ! " cried the " Now we may , indeed , cross over safely ; and by my faith , the torrent has shrunk in its bed a foot since we reached it . A little higher up , O'Neil ! —a little higher up , I say ! " he ...
... Torlogh ! Bravely done in faith ! " cried the " Now we may , indeed , cross over safely ; and by my faith , the torrent has shrunk in its bed a foot since we reached it . A little higher up , O'Neil ! —a little higher up , I say ! " he ...
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... Torlogh's brands , on which a reinforcement had been heaped before starting , they climbed onward up a long scarped pass , traverse above tra- verse , like those on the other side , toward the castle of the great earl - the lights of ...
... Torlogh's brands , on which a reinforcement had been heaped before starting , they climbed onward up a long scarped pass , traverse above tra- verse , like those on the other side , toward the castle of the great earl - the lights of ...
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Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2016 |
Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 94 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
Page 95 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 41 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 137 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Page 137 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Page 26 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep,* And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,* The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 137 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind...