The Saxon in Ireland : Or, The Rambles of an Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland ; with Frontispiece and MapJ. Murray, 1851 - 292 стор. |
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Сторінка 30 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Сторінка 50 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Сторінка 138 - And oft the craggy cliff he loved to climb, When all in mist the world below was lost — What dreadful pleasure ! there to stand sublime, Like shipwrecked mariner on desert coast...
Сторінка 160 - While scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms - a garden and a grave.
Сторінка 84 - Such were the arts by which James introduced humanity and justice among a people who had ever been buried in the most profound barbarism. Noble cares ! much superior to the vain and criminal glory of conquests, but requiring ages of perseverance and attention to perfect what had been so happily begun.
Сторінка 283 - The condition of the peasant was of late utterly, and is still almost, barbarous. What the Romans found the Britons and Germans, the Britons found the Irish — and left them : the neglect of the conquerors, the degeneracy of the colonists, and the obstinacy of the natives, have preserved, even to our day, living proofs of the veracity of Cissar and Tacitus ; of this, many will affect to be incredulous — of the Irish, lest it diminish the character of their country — of the English, because it...
Сторінка 236 - is a black spongy moor of rotten vegetable matter," but the bogs of Ireland " consist of inert vegetable matter, covered more or less with unproductive vegetables, and containing a large quantity of stagnant water." The difference between these soils is, that the rotten vegetable matter of the one produces unrivalled crops of grass, corn, &c. while the inert vegetable matter of the other, throws out no kind of plant useful to man. The...
Сторінка 83 - Gavelkinde, was divided among all the males of the sept or family, both bastard and legitimate: and after partition made, if any of the sept died, his portion was not shared out among his sons, but the chieftain, at his discretion, made anew partition of all the lands belonging to that sept, and gave every one his share.
Сторінка 58 - ... thereof, by the space of twenty years next before such lease thereof made; nor to any lease thereof made without impeachment of waste...