Revelations of Ireland in the Past GenerationJames McGlashan, 21 D'Olier-street. William S. Orr and Company, 147 Strand, London., 1848 - Ireland - 309 pages |
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Page 117 - While I have a tongue I'll abuse you, you most inimitable periphery. Look at her, boys! there she stands — a convicted perpendicular in petticoats. There's contamination in her circumference, and she trembles with guilt down to the extremities of her corollaries. Ah ! you're found out, you rectilineal antecedent, and equiangular old hag ! ,Tis with you the devil will fly away, you porter-swiping similitude of the bisection 'of a vortex ! " Overwhelmed with this torrent of language, Mrs.
Page 103 - The clerk of the crown then said, " How say you, Robert Earl of Kingston, are you guilty or not guilty of this murder and felony for which you stand arraigned ?" The Earl of Kingston replying " Not guilty," the clerk of the crown further interrogated him thus — " Culprit, how will your lordship be tried? " The earl replied,
Page 157 - Noonan, upon searching, he found concealed under his bed, the identical short gun with which one of the robbers had fired at him. Noonan was immediately secured and sent to gaol, and upon being visited by Sir John Purcell, he acknowledged that Sir John
Page 128 - Tlie day was fine, and the view from the summit of the hill burst gloriously upon the sight. The beautiful bay of Dublin, like a vast sheet of crystal, was at their feet ; the old city of Dublin stretched away to the west, and to the north was the bold promontory of Howth, jutting forth into the sea; to the south were the Dublin and Wicklow mountains, enclosing the lovely vale of Shanganah, rising picturesquely against the horizon. The scene was beautiful, with all the varieties of sunlight and shadow....
Page 153 - ... the door was burst open. The moon shone with great brightness, and when this door was thrown open, the light, streaming in through three large windows in the parlour, afforded Sir John a view that might have made an intrepid spirit not a little apprehensive. His bedroom was darkened to excess, in consequence of the shutters of the windows, as well as the curtains, being closed ; and thus, while he stood enveloped in darkness, he saw standing before him, by...
Page 265 - Come the eleventh plague, rather than this should be; Come sink us rather in the sea. Come rather pestilence, and reap us down ; Come God's sword rather than our own. Let rather Roman come again, Or Saxon, Norman, or the Dane : In all the bonds we ever bore, We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept ; we never blush'd before.
Page 51 - Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators...
Page 152 - In this state he epent little time in deliberation, as it almost immediately occurred to him, that having supped in the bed-chamber on that night, a knife had been left behind by accident, and he instantly proceeded to grope in the dark for this weapon, which...
Page 115 - Easy, now — easy, now," cried O'Connell, with imperturbable good humor, ' ' don't choke yourself with fine language, you old whiskey-drinking parallelogram." " What's that you call me, you murderin
Page 92 - The other also was determined, and, to all appearance, obstinately bent on blood. After the fourth shot, he said something to me about giving him advice as a friend. I told him I was no friend of his, but that I was a friend to humanity ; that, if after what had passed, he possessed firmness enough to acknowledge to Colonel King, that he was the vilest of human beings, and bear without reply any language from Colonel King, however harsh, the present business then, perhaps, might come to a period....