Excursions Through Ireland: Province of LeinsterLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820 |
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Side 39 - I procured for the purpose (for the inhabitants without any concern waded through it) I reached the staircase. It had rained violently, and from the shattered state of the roof a torrent of water made its way through every floor, from the garret to the ground. The sallow looks and filth of the wretches who crowded round me indicated their situation, though they seemed insensible to the stench, which I could scarce sustain for a few minutes.
Side 183 - ... follow'd to the silent tomb, Steer'd the same course to the same quiet shore, Not parted long, and now to part no more ! Go, then, where only bliss sincere is known! Go, where to love and to enjoy are one ! Yet take these tears, Mortality's relief, And, till we share your joys, forgive our grief: These little rites, a stone, a verse receive, Tis all a father, all a friend can give...
Side 6 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Side 99 - STELLA, under which she is celebrated in the writings of Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, Dean of this Cathedral. She was a person of extraordinary endowments and accomplishments in body, mind, and behaviour ; justly admired and respected by all who knew her, on account of her many eminent virtues, as well as for her great natural and acquired perfections.
Side 99 - She was a person of extraordinary endowments and accomplishments of body, mind, and behaviour, justly admired and respected by all who knew her, on account of her many eminent virtues, as well as for her great natural and acquired perfections. She died...
Side 172 - I quickly perceived, and being thoroughly sensible, that it was my indispensable duty to live in Ireland, determined, by some means or other, to attach myself to my native country ; and, principally with this view, I began those improvements at Marino, which have proved so expensive to me.
Side 72 - Dublin has to boast ; and it is no hyperbole to advance, that this edifice in the entire, is the grandest, most convenient, and most extensive of the kind in Europe. The portico is without any of the usual architectural decorations, having neither statue, vase...
Side 170 - Ballybough) were formerly much more numerous until stolen to be converted into hearthstones and to other purposes; a curious anecdote of this nature is told. A Jew, paying a visit a short time ago to a Christian friend in the vicinity of Ballybough Bridge, found him in the act of repairing his house. Examining the improvements, he perceived near the fireplace a stone with a Hebrew inscription intimating to the astonished Israelite that the body of his father was buried in the chimney.
Side 176 - O'er the plenty of the plain. Low the dauntless earl is laid, Gor'd with many a gaping wound : Fate demands a nobler head; Soon a king shall bite the ground. Long his loss shall Eirin weep, Ne'er again his likeness see; Long her strains in sorrow steep, Strains of immortality.
Side 73 - Here again, the House assembled, from below the bar a high scene of picturesque grandeur is presented; and the Viceroy on the throne appears with more splendour than his Majesty himself on the throne of England...