Hand-books for Ireland, by mr. and mrs. S.C. Hall, Volume 1Virtue, Hall and Virtue, 1853 |
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Page 68 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Page 21 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Page 155 - This was his Christian badge ; nor can I recollect a single instance in which he ever laid it aside. " Speak not evil one of another," was a very remarkable characteristic of my beloved husband. With David he said, " I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue.
Page 126 - Concise view of the origin, constitution, and proceedings of the honourable society of the governor and assistants of London, of the new plantation in Ulster.
Page 11 - And now give me leave to say how it comes to pass that this work is wrought. It was set upon some of our hearts, That a great thing should be done, not by power or might, but by the Spirit of God.
Page 10 - The governor, Sir Arthur Aston, and divers considerable officers being there, our men getting up to them, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And, indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town ; and, I think, that night they put to the sword about two thousand men...
Page 84 - Belfast. this the subject of inquiry, have stated, that in geological structure the island and adjacent continent are accurately the same ; and Doctor Hamilton entertained the idea, that this island, standing as it were in the midst between this and the Scottish coast, may be the surviving fragment of a large tract of country, which at some period of time has been buried in the deep, and may have formerly united Staffa and the Giant's Causeway *. Its formation is basaltic ; and the most remarkable...
Page 134 - ... of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 10 - Our men getting up to them," ran Cromwell's terrible despatch, " were ordered by me to put them all to the sword. And indeed, being in the heat of action, I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to death about two thousand men.