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Strona 240 - The pilgrim oft At dead of night, 'mid his orison, hears Aghast the voice of time ; disparting towers Tumbling all precipitate down dashed, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
Strona 50 - ... you might see streets and tenements regularly set out, and houses rising as it were out of the ground (like Cadmus's colony) on a sudden, so that these dwellings became towns immediately. Yet among all this care and indefatigable industry for their families, a place of God's honour to dwell in was not forgotten or neglected, for indeed our forefathers were more pious than ourselves...
Strona 261 - Forgive me, sir ; my grief is idle, but to mourn is a relief to the desolate heart and humbled spirit. I am a Mac Carty, once the possessor of that castle, now in ruins, and of this ground ; — this tree was planted by my own hands, and I have returned to water its roots with my tears. Tomorrow I sail for Spain, where I have long been an exile and an outlaw since the Revolution. I...
Strona 261 - Sir ; my grief is idle, but to mourn is a relief to the desolate heart and humbled spirit. I am a M'Carty, once the possessor of that castle, now in ruins, and of this ground ; — this tree was planted by my own hands, and I have returned to water its roots with my tears. To-morrow I sail for Spain, where I have long been an exile and an outlaw since the Revolution. I am an old man, and tonight, probably for the last time, bid farewell to the place of my birth and the home of my forefathers.
Strona 249 - The vast volumes of clouds which are rolled together from the Atlantic and rest on the summits of the mountains, clothe them with majesty: the different masses of light and shade traversing the lakes in succession, as the shifting bodies above float...
Strona 50 - Donaghadee was oftener, because but three hours' sail from Portpatrick, where they bespoke provisions and necessaries to lade in, to be brought over by their own or that town's boats, whenever wind and weather served them, for there was a constant flux of passengers coming daily over...
Strona 96 - ... on their different works : that these chambers were dressed in a workmanlike manner : that pillars were left at proper intervals to support the roof. In 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 of the baskets used in the works, were discovered, but in such a decayed state, that on being touched, they immediately crumbled to pieces.
Strona 131 - This colonnade is supported on a solid base of coarse, black, irregular rock, near sixty feet thick, abounding in blebs and airholes — but though comparatively irregular, it may be evidently observed to affect a peculiar figure, tending in many places to run into regular forms, resembling the shooting of salts and many other substances during a hasty crystallisation.
Strona 51 - Now the Golden peaceable age renewed, no strife, contention, querulous lawyers, or Scottish or Irish feuds, between clanns and families and sirnames, disturbing the tranquillity of those times; and the towns and temples were erected, with other great works done (even in troublesome years...
Strona 188 - ... suppression, granted to Sir John King, who assigned it to the Earl of Clanricarde. " In the Munster annals we find, ' that in the year 1203, William de Burgo marched at the head of a great army into Connaught, and so to Milick, and did there profanely convert the church into a stable, round which he erected a castle of a circular form, wherein he was seen to eat flesh-meat during the whole time of lent.