Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Written in Connaught, Հատորներ 1-2G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1809 - 222 էջ |
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Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Written in Connaught, Հատորներ 1-2 Lady Morgan (Sydney) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1809 |
Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Written in Connaught, Հատորներ 1-2 Lady Morgan (Sydney) Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1809 |
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Էջ 147 - Imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve; all naked and alive They catch the spreading rays; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive.
Էջ 151 - ... so as he could not well sleep, they would bring him one of these tale-tellers, that, when he lay down, would begin a story of a king, or a giant...
Էջ 88 - Unheard-of confiscations were made in the northern parts, upon grounds of plots and conspiracies, never proved upon their supposed authors. The war of chicane succeeded to the war of arms and of hostile statutes ; and a regular series -of operations was carried on, particularly from Chichester's time, in the ordinary courts of justice, and by special commissions and inquisitions ; first, under pretence of tenures, and then of titles in the Crown, for the purpose of the total extirpation of the interest...
Էջ 195 - The former is excited by labour, the latter is soothed by indolence. Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry: she renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labour. But if an arbitrary prince should attempt to deprive the people of nature's bounty, they would fall into a disrelish of industry; and then indolence and inaction must be their only happiness.
Էջ 86 - All these statutes speak of English rebels and Irish enemies, as if the Irish had never been in the condition of subjects, but always out of the protection of the...
Էջ ix - I should leave my native country to learn the turpitude, degradation, ferocity, and inconsequence of her offspring; the miseries of her present, and the falsity of the recorded splendours of her ancient state. This ungracious information I acquired during a short tour through a sister isle ; and it was in the course of one of the many conversations which occurred on the subject of my (always termed)
Էջ 85 - The claims which they made in the expecting confidence of their hearts, remained unrealized, because they were unheard :* for it was ever, as it is now, the singular destiny of Ireland to nourish within her own bosom her bitterest enemies, who with a species of political vampyrism, destroyed that source from whence their own nutriment flowed.
Էջ 196 - This extortion of coigny and livery did produce two notorious effects. First, it made the land waste ; next it made the people idle. For when the husbandman had laboured all the year, the soldier in one night did consume the fruits of all his labour, longique perit labor irritus anni.
Էջ 147 - Consenting, sounded through the warbling air Unbidden strains, even so did Nature's hand To certain species of external things, Attune the finer organs of the mind; So the glad impulse of congenial powers, Or of sweet sound, or...
Էջ x - Irish woman, I felt all the delicacy of undertaking a work which had for the professed theme of its discussion, circumstances of national import, and national interest. But though I meant not to appear on the list of opposition as a fairy amazon, armed with a pebble and a sling, against a host of gigantic prejudices : although to compose a national defence, to ward the shaft of opprobrium hurled at the character of my country...