The Celt Above the Saxon: Or, A Comparative Sketch of the Irish and the English People in War, in Peace and in CharacterAngel Guardian Press, 1904 - 278 pàgines |
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The Celt Above the Saxon: Or, A Comparative Sketch of the Irish and the ... Cornelius Joseph Herlihy Visualització completa - 1904 |
The Celt Above the Saxon: Or, a Comparative Sketch of the Irish and English ... C. J. (Cornelius Joseph) Herlihy Previsualització no disponible - 2012 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 270 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Pàgina 78 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand!
Pàgina 261 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Pàgina 147 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Pàgina 147 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers, whence are thy beams O sun, thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?
Pàgina 270 - Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works : in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Pàgina 147 - The oaks of the mountains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years, the ocean shrinks and grows again...
Pàgina 147 - Age is dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light of the moon when it shines through broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills : the blast of the north is on the plain ; the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey.
Pàgina 270 - Therefore shall her plagues come. in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Pàgina 229 - Why have the Gentiles raged and the people devised vain things ? The kings of the earth stood up, and the princes met together against the Lord and against His Christ (saying) : Let us break their bonds asunder, and let us cast away their yoke from us.