The popular songs of Ireland, collected and ed., with intr. and notes, by T.C. CrokerHenry Colburn, 1839 - 340 Seiten |
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... matters are followed by a collection of local songs , in my choice of which various . considerations have guided me . First , I deemed it very desirable to exhibit as rarities , and also to prove how much historical matter respecting ...
... matters are followed by a collection of local songs , in my choice of which various . considerations have guided me . First , I deemed it very desirable to exhibit as rarities , and also to prove how much historical matter respecting ...
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... matter being generally procured from a puncture made in the artist's finger for the purpose ; the yellow , from the yolk of an egg ; and the green , from the vegetable sap of a plant commonly called pennywort . The instrument with which ...
... matter being generally procured from a puncture made in the artist's finger for the purpose ; the yellow , from the yolk of an egg ; and the green , from the vegetable sap of a plant commonly called pennywort . The instrument with which ...
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... matter over by calling it " a cant word . " Little , indeed , did the learned doctor dream of the light which minute researches into Irish antiquities are likely to throw upon philology . Witness the wonderful discoveries of Sir William ...
... matter over by calling it " a cant word . " Little , indeed , did the learned doctor dream of the light which minute researches into Irish antiquities are likely to throw upon philology . Witness the wonderful discoveries of Sir William ...
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... matters which are generally supposed to be modern intro- ductions , may startle the reader in illustrations of the history of St. Patrick and his times ; but the words of a wise man of yore should be remembered , who said that " there ...
... matters which are generally supposed to be modern intro- ductions , may startle the reader in illustrations of the history of St. Patrick and his times ; but the words of a wise man of yore should be remembered , who said that " there ...
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... matter . Nor are authorities wanted to support the assertion that St. Patrick was an Irishman . Dempster , in his " Ecclesiastical History , " states that the Irish contended ST . PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN . 19 St Patrick was a Gentleman.
... matter . Nor are authorities wanted to support the assertion that St. Patrick was an Irishman . Dempster , in his " Ecclesiastical History , " states that the Irish contended ST . PATRICK WAS A GENTLEMAN . 19 St Patrick was a Gentleman.
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adieu Andrew Cherry appears ballad beautiful Blackpool Bog of Allen Bounce upon Bess boys bumpers Callanan called Carrigaline Castle celebrated copy Cork Croagh Patrick dear Doneraile Donnybrook drink Dublin Editor English Erin's fair favourite following song Frederic Madden Garryowen gentleman glass Gougane Barra green Groves of Blarney heart Henry hill Hillaloo honour Hudibras humour Ireland Irish Hudibras Irishman Jonah Barrington Kilkenny king Kinsale land Limerick liquor Lord lyric Macroom Mallow manuscript mayor Millikin morning mountain ne'er never o'er Patrick Patrick's day plains of Onnabuoy plant poem potato poteen printed Quia tu semper remarkable rhyme river Lee root Ross Saint says semper intacta manes shamrock Shannon shew sing Sir Walter Skellig List spirit sprig of Shillelah sung sunt sweet thee there's thou faithless world town Twas verse vont Waterford wira Youghall
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 232 - Of thy belfry, knelling Its bold notes free, Made the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand, on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee. I've heard bells tolling Old Adrian's Mole...
Seite 82 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
Seite 196 - Desmond :—a thousand wild fountains Come down to that lake, from their home in the mountains. There grows the wild ash, and a time-stricken willow Looks chidingly down on the mirth of the billow ; As, like some gay child, that sad monitor scorning, It lightly laughs back to the laugh of the morning.
Seite 230 - WITH deep affection And recollection I often think of Those Shandon bells, Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee, — With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee.
Seite 131 - Blacke-water, and the Liffar deep, Sad Trowis, that once his people over-ran, Strong Allo tombling from Slewlogher steep, And Mulla mine, whose waves I whilom taught to weep.
Seite 31 - They willingly eat the herb Shamrock, being of a sharp taste, which, as they run and are chased to and fro, they snatch like beasts out of the ditches.
Seite 269 - Father Tom." Of ships there's one fixt For lodging convicts — A floating
Seite 198 - Still, still in those wilds might young liberty rally, And send her strong shout over mountain and valley, The star of the west might yet rise in its glory, And the land that was darkest be brightest in story.
Seite 221 - And on the broken pavement, here and there, Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie; A brandy and tobacco shop is near, And hens, and dogs, and hogs, are feeding by : And here a sailor's jacket hangs to dry. At every door are sunburnt matrons seen, Mending old nets to catch the scaly fry ; Now singing shrill, and scolding eft between ; Scolds answer foul-mouth'd scolds; bad neighbourhood I ween.
Seite 91 - Lichfield, man and boy, above eight-and-fifty years, and I believe have not consumed eight-and-fifty ounces of meat.