Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 16
... thou , be thy name what it may , fear nothing ! The word of the O'Brien is pledged for thy safety ; and thou art as safe as if thou hadst tasted of my bread and salt , and wert standing on my hearth- stone . " " Ireland is changed ...
... thou , be thy name what it may , fear nothing ! The word of the O'Brien is pledged for thy safety ; and thou art as safe as if thou hadst tasted of my bread and salt , and wert standing on my hearth- stone . " " Ireland is changed ...
Pàgina 17
A Tale of 1649 Henry William Herbert. say thou art , thou wilt remove thyself as speedily as may be from this neighborhood . The air of Wexford is not wholesome , I have heard men say , for heretics or regicides ; and sith thou hast ...
A Tale of 1649 Henry William Herbert. say thou art , thou wilt remove thyself as speedily as may be from this neighborhood . The air of Wexford is not wholesome , I have heard men say , for heretics or regicides ; and sith thou hast ...
Pàgina 18
... thou hadst now been wavering in the wind , from yon oak tree - top , to feed that very raven which sits there , biding for the breaking of the deer . Speak , therefore , once for all ! What wilt thou have of me ? Thy presence is as a ...
... thou hadst now been wavering in the wind , from yon oak tree - top , to feed that very raven which sits there , biding for the breaking of the deer . Speak , therefore , once for all ! What wilt thou have of me ? Thy presence is as a ...
Pàgina 19
... thou , Phadraigh , hold my stirrup . If he have lost his tongue , I cannot wait till he recover it . We have full twenty miles to ride home ; and I am damaged somewhat by that brow antler . I know not but I have a rib or two broken ...
... thou , Phadraigh , hold my stirrup . If he have lost his tongue , I cannot wait till he recover it . We have full twenty miles to ride home ; and I am damaged somewhat by that brow antler . I know not but I have a rib or two broken ...
Pàgina 20
... Thou hast it . I have given thee already the assurance . No man of mine dare harm thee for his life ! " " It is not from thy men that I fear harm , O'Brien ; nor against them that I crave protection . " 66 Against whom , then ? If thou ...
... Thou hast it . I have given thee already the assurance . No man of mine dare harm thee for his life ! " " It is not from thy men that I fear harm , O'Brien ; nor against them that I crave protection . " 66 Against whom , then ? If thou ...
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Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 94 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
Pàgina 95 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Pàgina 41 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Pàgina 137 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Pàgina 137 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Pàgina 26 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep,* And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,* The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Pàgina 137 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind...