O'Hara; or, 1798 [by W.H. Maxwell].J. Andrews, and Miliken, Dublin, 1825 - 558 sider |
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Side 42
... hill with all the steadiness of a veteran army . The operations of the English forces did not terminate with the defeat of the Republicans . The town of Charleston had annoyed them during the day , by a constant teazing fire , and , in ...
... hill with all the steadiness of a veteran army . The operations of the English forces did not terminate with the defeat of the Republicans . The town of Charleston had annoyed them during the day , by a constant teazing fire , and , in ...
Side 43
... marked object for the rifleman . O'Hara sickened as he looked down the hill . It was , indeed , a melancholy sight . Heaps of corses lay as if regularly strewn in front of the breast - work , and indicated with O'HARA . 43.
... marked object for the rifleman . O'Hara sickened as he looked down the hill . It was , indeed , a melancholy sight . Heaps of corses lay as if regularly strewn in front of the breast - work , and indicated with O'HARA . 43.
Side 49
... hill . The General gallopped forward to recall the advance , and Pat Mahony , after commending his master and mistress to the especial care of Heaven , seated himself beside the body of the Republican Commander . VOL . I. E CHAPTER IV ...
... hill . The General gallopped forward to recall the advance , and Pat Mahony , after commending his master and mistress to the especial care of Heaven , seated himself beside the body of the Republican Commander . VOL . I. E CHAPTER IV ...
Side 50
... his companions in arms ; and when victory and the hill was theirs , his triumph broke out in wild and unrestrained exultation : while the The citizen , with keener sensibility , almost sank beneath 50 O'HARA . CHAPTER IV. ...
... his companions in arms ; and when victory and the hill was theirs , his triumph broke out in wild and unrestrained exultation : while the The citizen , with keener sensibility , almost sank beneath 50 O'HARA . CHAPTER IV. ...
Side 52
... Hill , fell in more than womanly affection on the cheek of his now happy wife . There were few that day in Boston who did not share in the general distress . The Ameri- cans apprehended that the British troops would follow up their ...
... Hill , fell in more than womanly affection on the cheek of his now happy wife . There were few that day in Boston who did not share in the general distress . The Ameri- cans apprehended that the British troops would follow up their ...
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adieu alarm Alice appeared arms attention beautiful Belvue bless called carriage Castle Carra cheek Clifford Colonel command companion concealed Constance cried dark dear death desperate Doctor door Dublin Emily endeavoured entered exclaimed fate father feelings fell followed fortune frigate gallant Glossin go merry hand heard heart Henry O'Hara hill Holyhead honour horse hour Ireland Irish Lady Constantia Lady Sarah leaders leave Loftus Loftus Hall looked Lord Edward M'Cullogh Maguire Mahony Major O'Hara melancholy Melange ment military morning Mount Pleasant never Newbridge night Nugent O'Kelly Ommadawn party passed paused person political Pompeii poor racter RANDALSTOWN rebel regiment replied Republicans rest retired royalists scene servant sigh smile soldier soon Stamford stood stranger tears tell Thornton tion town turned United Irishmen voice Watchmen William Thornton young O'Hara Zounds
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Side 191 - OR love me less, or love me more ; And play not with my liberty : Either take all, or all restore ; Bind me at least, or set me free ! Let me some nobler torture find Than of a doubtful wavering mind : Take all my peace ! but you betray Mine honour too, this cruel way.
Side 147 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Side 158 - I should be free to confess it, but, on the contrary, I glory in my innocence. I trust that all my virtuous countrymen will bear me in their kind remembrance, and continue true and faithful to each other, as I have been to all of them.
Side 155 - ... mercy; in return, I pray to God, if they have erred, to have mercy upon them. The Judge, who condemned me, humanely shed tears in uttering my sentence; but whether he did wisely, in so highly commending the wretched informer who swore away my life, I leave to his own cool reflection, solemnly assuring him and all the world, with my dying breath, that the informer was forsworn.
Side 50 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Side 129 - In each county he assembled the most respectable gentlemen and landholders in it, and having, in concert with them, examined the charges against the leaders of this banditti who were in prison, but defied justice, he, with the concurrence of these gentlemen, sent the most nefarious of them on board a tender stationed at Sligo, to serve in His Majesty's navy.
Side 50 - Three things a wise man will not trust, — The Wind, the Sunshine of an April day, And Woman's plighted faith.
Side 26 - Conduct vn. 1 A fair name is better than precious ointment,1 And the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the banqueting-house ; Inasmuch as that2 is the end of all men, And the living should lay it to heart.
Side 156 - My comfortable lot and industrious course of life best refute the charge of being an adventurer for plunder ; but if to have loved my country, to have known its wrongs, to have felt the injuries of the persecuted Catholics, and to have united with them and all other religious persuasions in the most orderly and least sanguinary means of procuring redress : If those be felonies, I am a felon, but not otherwise.
Side 50 - No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.