The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical Arrangements, and Compiled with a Special Reference to the Lines of Railroad and Canal Communication, as Existing in 1814-45, Volume 3A. Fullarton and Company, 1846 |
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Page 303 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts, that once beat high for praise, Now feel that pulse no more.
Page 191 - You might have supposed that sound had no existence here ; were it not that now and then a hawk shrieked while cowering over the mountain top, or a lamb bleated beneath as it ran to its mother. I could have gone to sleep here, and dreamt of heaven purchased for poor sinners like me, by a Saviour's blood.'' I did at any rate praise the God of nature and of grace, and draw near to him in Christ, grateful for all his blessings, and all his wonders of creating and redeeming love...
Page 314 - Dublin, resigned the prebendary of Kilroot, and obtained a grant of it for this new friend. When he gave the presentation to the poor clergyman, he kept his eyes steadily fixed on the old man's face, which, at first, only expressed pleasure at finding himself preferred to a living ; but when he found that it was that of his...
Page 191 - ... lake. These Tarns looked like mirrors set in the mountain's side to reflect the upright sun ; and five or six of such sheets of silver presented themselves, until at the very root of the mountain, a large expanse of water, a mile or two over, studded with islands, sufficiently wooded to be ornamental, finished the whole picture, and formed the last beauty and curiosity I shall record of this surpassingly interesting hill.
Page 334 - Bumet, who was never suspected of telling a lie in favour of a papist, in his history of his own times, p. 502, acquaints us from the testimony of the Earl of Essex, that Plunket was a wise and sober man, who was for living quietly and in due submission to the government...
Page 191 - Island, rising out of the deep like a castellated and fortified city ; lofty towers, church spire«, battlements, bastions, batteries, presented themselves, — so strangely varied and so fantastically deceptive were its cliffs. Jutting out far into the ocean, lay the promontory of Horn-Head, so called from a cliff at its extreme point, where it fronts the Atlantic, having the form of a horn ; a place which, in Pagan times, might have been consecrated to the worship of the horned Ammonick Jupiter.
Page 276 - ... the ancient giants. It was the custom of these gentle lords to invite their wealthy and distinguished neighbours to partake of the festivities of Strancally; and having thus gotten them into their power, the victims were carried through the rocky passage into the dungeon, where they were suffered to perish, and from thence, through an opening which is still visible, their corpses were cast into the river : thus disposed of, their fortunes became an easy prey. These practices continued for a long...
Page 59 - His mother was daughter of the Rev. Oliver Jones, master of the diocesan school at Elphin.
Page 304 - Roadanus and a bishop that was with him took their bells, which they rung hardly, and cursed the king and place, and prayed God that no king or queen ever after would or could dwell in Tara, and that it should be waste forever, without court or palace, as it fell out accordingly.
Page 191 - Avhite, with primitive crumpled horns, were grazing. But the lake — not a breath was abroad on its expanse ; it smiled as it reflected the grey mountain and the azure face of heaven : it seemed as if on this day the Spirit of the Atlantic had fallen asleep, and air, earth and ocean were celebrating the festival of repose : the waters of the lake, of the colour and clearness of the sky w-ere " Blue ; darkly, deeply, beautifully blue...