The Wild Irish Girl: A National TaleJ. Greenleaf; Oliver and Munroe, printers, 1808 - 310 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... passions kept pace with the expansion of his mind , and the moral powers of the man of genius , gave way to the overwhelming pro- pensities of the man of pleasure . Yet in the midst of these exotic vices ( for as such even yet I would ...
... passions kept pace with the expansion of his mind , and the moral powers of the man of genius , gave way to the overwhelming pro- pensities of the man of pleasure . Yet in the midst of these exotic vices ( for as such even yet I would ...
Pagina xi
... passion's meteor ray , " even then , my heart called ( but called in vain ) for a thousand delicious refinements to give poignan- cy to the mere transient impulse of sense . Oh ! my dear friend , if in that sunny season of ex- istence ...
... passion's meteor ray , " even then , my heart called ( but called in vain ) for a thousand delicious refinements to give poignan- cy to the mere transient impulse of sense . Oh ! my dear friend , if in that sunny season of ex- istence ...
Pagina xii
... passions to the basest career . That I became the dupe of Lady C- , and her art- ful predecessor , arose from the want of that " some- thing still unpossessed , " to fill my life's dreadful void . I sensibly felt the want of an object ...
... passions to the basest career . That I became the dupe of Lady C- , and her art- ful predecessor , arose from the want of that " some- thing still unpossessed , " to fill my life's dreadful void . I sensibly felt the want of an object ...
Pagina xiv
... their simple and elementary substance , whose own disordered mind is incapable of analyzing the passions by which it is agitated , of as , * certaining the reciprocal relation of its incoherent ideas , or Xiv INTRODUCTORY LETTERS .
... their simple and elementary substance , whose own disordered mind is incapable of analyzing the passions by which it is agitated , of as , * certaining the reciprocal relation of its incoherent ideas , or Xiv INTRODUCTORY LETTERS .
Pagina 33
... passions of the lower orders of society . * " J'ai souvent entendu réprocher la paresse et l'ivrogne au paysan . Mais lorsque on est reduit a mourir de faim n'est - ce pas preferâble de ne rien faire , puisque le travail le plus assidus ...
... passions of the lower orders of society . * " J'ai souvent entendu réprocher la paresse et l'ivrogne au paysan . Mais lorsque on est reduit a mourir de faim n'est - ce pas preferâble de ne rien faire , puisque le travail le plus assidus ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Adieu ancient Irish appeared awakened bard beam beautiful beheld believe blush bosom breathed called castle of Inismore character charms Clendinning Connaught countenance dance daughter Dublin elegant emotion endeavoured English exclaimed eyes fancy Father John feelings felicity Fingal flowers gaze genius glance Glorvina Greeks hand happy harp head heart heaven honour human hung interest Ireland Irish harp Irish language J. D. ESQ King of Leinster letter lips look lord Magilligan ment Milesian mind Munster Murtoch native nature ness never nurse old Irish once Ossian passion peasant perceived pleasure poems poor priest Prince of Coolavin Prince of Inismore Prince's received recollection replied returned round ruins scarcely Scotland seanachies seat seemed sentiment sigh smile song soul spirit sufferings suppose sweet talent taste tears tender thought tion virtue voice wild WILD IRISH GIRL wish woman young
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Pagina 156 - Classical reading," says Dr. Smith, in his History of Kerry, " extends itself even to a fault amongst the lower and poorer kinds of this country ; many of whom, to the taking them off more useful work, have greater knowledge in this way than some of the better sort of other places.
Pagina 24 - ... traveller, all the pleasures of tasteful enjoyment, all the sublime emotions of a rapt imagination ; and if the glowing fancy of Claude 'Loraine would have dwelt enraptured on the paradisial charms of English landscape, the superior genius of TSal vator Rossa would have reposed its eagle wing amidst those scenes of mysterious sublimity, with which the wildly magnificent landscape of Ireland abounds.
Pagina 247 - Jind cm for bimitlf" meaning that his guests would fall under the table. In his second trip to Scotland, in the year 1745, being at Edinburgh, when Charley the Pretender was there, he was called into the great hall to play ; at first he was alone, afterwards four fiddlers joined ; the tune called for was, " The king shall enjoy his own again...
Pagina 64 - ... spreading to infinitude, seemed to the limited gaze of human vision to incorporate with the heaven, whose last glow it reflected — the rocks, which on every side rose to Alpine elevation, exhibiting, amidst the soft obscurity, forms savagely bold, or grotesquely wild; and those finely interesting ruins, which spread grandly desolate in the rear, and added a moral interest to the emotions excited by this view of nature in her most awful, most touching aspect.
Pagina 235 - I am convinced that were endeavours for their improvement more strictly promoted, and their respective duties obviously made clear, their true interests fully represented by reason and common sense, and their unhappy situations ameliorated by justice and humanity, they would be a people as happy, contented, and prosperous, in a political sense, as in a natural and a national one; they are brave, hospitable, liberal, and ingenious.
Pagina 56 - I left the shore and crossed the summit of a mountain that " battled o'er the deep," and which after an hour's ascension, I found sloped almost perpendicularly down to a bold and rocky coast, its base terminating in a peninsula, that advanced for near half a mile into the ocean. Towards the extreme western point of this peninsula, which was wildly romantic beyond all description, arose a vast and grotesque pile of rocks, which at once formed the scite and fortifications of the noblest mass of ruins...
Pagina 59 - He was dressed in his pontificals, and, with his eyes bent to earth, his hands spread upon his breast, he joined his coadjutors. What a contrast to this saintly being now struck my view; a form almost gigantic in stature, yet gently thrown forward by evident infirmity; limbs of Herculean mould, and a countenance rather furrowed by the inroads of vehement passions, than the deep trace of years...
Pagina 205 - Still melting there, and with voluptuous pain (O to forget her!) thrilling through my heart! Song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy ; this group Of bright ideas, flowers of paradise, As yet unforfeit ! in one blaze we bind, Kneel and present it to the skies, as all We guess of heaven: and these were all her own.
Pagina 226 - The waves of people at his word divide, Slow rolls the chariot through the following tide ; Even to the palace the sad pomp they wait; They weep, and place him on the bed of state. A melancholy choir ' attend around, With plaintive sighs, and music's solemn sound ; Alternately they sing, alternate flow The obedient tears, melodious in their woe.
Pagina 66 - ... upon the harp;' the half-drawn veil, that imperfectly discovered the countenance of a seraph; the moonlight that played round her fine form, and partially touched her drapery with its silver beam— her attitude! her air!— But how cold— how inanimate— how imperfect this description! Oh! could I but seize the touching features — could I but realize the vivid tints of this enchanting picture, as they then glowed on my fancy! You would still think the mimic copy fabulous; the 'celestial...