The avenged bride; a tale of the glens [in verse] with notes, historical and descriptive of the northern coast of the county of AntrimHodgson, 1833 |
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... pillar'd galleries arise In twofold tiers ! -whose lofty columns spread Across his front , like giant ranks they stand , The guardian bulwarks of our native land . LXI . And now this splendid headland they have clear'd , And numerous ...
... pillar'd galleries arise In twofold tiers ! -whose lofty columns spread Across his front , like giant ranks they stand , The guardian bulwarks of our native land . LXI . And now this splendid headland they have clear'd , And numerous ...
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... pillars lift their heads on high , With which , nor Czar's nor Pompey's e'er could vie ! 20 LXV . Now o'er the swelling flood they quickly glide , And down the land with eagle's swiftness run , The foam and surf high dashing round her ...
... pillars lift their heads on high , With which , nor Czar's nor Pompey's e'er could vie ! 20 LXV . Now o'er the swelling flood they quickly glide , And down the land with eagle's swiftness run , The foam and surf high dashing round her ...
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... Pillars of ice the hoary structure bore , In Nature's grand variety of show ; A gorgeous , bright , transparent pile it stood- A crystal palace , rising from the flood ! XXVI . As if some fairy , in fantastic mood CANTO IV . ] 99 THE ...
... Pillars of ice the hoary structure bore , In Nature's grand variety of show ; A gorgeous , bright , transparent pile it stood- A crystal palace , rising from the flood ! XXVI . As if some fairy , in fantastic mood CANTO IV . ] 99 THE ...
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... pillars of the Causeway for the chimneys of a town . This must be an erroneous idea ; there were many of the vessels wrecked on the Scotch coast , and we do not hear of their mistaking any of the cliffs there for the chimneys of a town ...
... pillars of the Causeway for the chimneys of a town . This must be an erroneous idea ; there were many of the vessels wrecked on the Scotch coast , and we do not hear of their mistaking any of the cliffs there for the chimneys of a town ...
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... pillars of the Causeway , and the great capes in its neighbourhood , possess magnetic attraction to a very considerable degree ; but though I am far from supposing that it was their magnetic power that drew the unfortunate Spanish ships ...
... pillars of the Causeway , and the great capes in its neighbourhood , possess magnetic attraction to a very considerable degree ; but though I am far from supposing that it was their magnetic power that drew the unfortunate Spanish ships ...
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Abraham Adelia Alexander Macaulay Allan Angus arms Ballycastle basaltic battle battle of Aura battle of Harlaw beautiful bosom brave bright Bruce called Cantire castle Causeway cheer chief clan clan Donald coast Coll Colonel Gillespie County of Antrim Cushendall Cushendun dark deadly death deep descended destruction Donald dread Dunluce Dunluce castle e'en fate fearful feel feet fell Fergus fierce Fionn fire fled flew flies flung foaming foes friends galloglogh Giant's Causeway glen Glenarriff Glendun grandeur hand heart Heaven Highland hope Ireland Irish Islay Isles John John Moir King land Lord of Argyle loud Lough Neagh M'Quillan Macdonald Macquillan mighty monarch mountain night NOTES TO CANTO nought o'er O'Neill Ossian pillars porphyry possession Prince rage Ranald reign rise river rock rush'd scene Scotland Scots Scottish seem'd soldiers Somerlett soul STANZA stood succeeded thee thou unto vale Vellore vengeance whin-dyke wild
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Page 220 - Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Page 219 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah ; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Page 219 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 221 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him : for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.
Page 221 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
Page 220 - And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 179 - ... such unwieldy vessels, yielded to the fury of the storm, and allowed their ships to drive either on the western isles of Scotland, or on the coast of Ireland, where they were miserably wrecked. Not a half of the navy returned to Spain ; and the seamen as well as soldiers who remained were so overcome with hardships and fatigue, and so dispirited by their discomfiture, that they filled all Spain with accounts of the desperate...
Page 238 - Campbell's sincerity: nevertheless the two young men went forth privately to make further observations. They overheard the common soldiers say they liked not the work; that though they would have willingly fought the Macdonalds of the glen fairly in the field, they held it base to murder them in cool blood, but that their officers were answerable for the treachery. When the youths hasted back to...
Page 220 - And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
Page 180 - Ireland, where they were miserably wrecked. Not a half of the navy returned to Spain ; and the seamen as well as soldiers who remained were so overcome with hardships and fatigue, and so dispirited by their discomfiture, that they filled all Spain with accounts of the desperate valour of the English, and of the tempestuous violence of that ocean which surrounds them.