The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland: Swift--Flood--Grattan--O'ConnellD. Appleton, 1872 - 320 страници |
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advocated agitation appears Bill bishops brought forward career carried Castlereagh Catholic emancipation cause century character Charlemont chiefly Church classes clergy constitution corruption disloyalty Dublin eloquence eminent England English enthusiasm extreme favour feeling Flood friends genius Government Grattan honour House of Lords independence influence Ireland Irish Parliament Irish Protestants Irishmen laboured land landlords leaders Legislature letter Liberals liberty Lord Castlereagh Lord Charlemont Lord Cornwallis Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Melbourne Lord Townshend Lord-Lieutenant measure ment mind Ministers Ministry movement nation natural never O'Connell object obtained opponents opposed orator Parlia Parliamentary party passed passion patriotism Peel penal laws Pitt political popular position Poyning's Law priests probably public opinion question rebellion reform refused religion religious Repeal resolution Roman Catholics scarcely Sheil speeches spirit Stella Swift talent tion tithes tone Tory trade triumph Union United Irishmen violent Volunteers vote Whig whole writers wrote
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Страница 174 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Страница 113 - I am now to address a free people: ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Страница 38 - Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard or read of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the liberty of exporting their native commodities and manufactures wherever they pleased, except to countries at war with their own prince or state; yet this, by the superiority of mere power, is refused us in the most momentous parts of commerce...
Страница 53 - I have passed a very constrained hour, and now return to say I know not what. I have been long weary of the world, and shall for my small remainder of years be weary of life, having for ever lost that conversation, which could only make it tolerable.
Страница 296 - Once to my sight that giant form was given. Walled by wide air, and roofed by boundless heaven, Beneath his feet the human ocean lay, And wave on wave rolled into space away. Methought no clarion could have sent its sound Even to the centre of the hosts around ; And, as I thought, rose the sonorous swell, As from some church-tower swings the silvery bell. Aloft and clear, from airy tide to tide, It glided, easy as a bird may glide ; Even to the verge of that vast audience sent, It played with each...
Страница 174 - While a plank of the vessel sticks together, I will not leave her — let the courtier present his flimsy sail, and carry the light bark of his faith, with every new breath of wind — I will remain anchored here — with fidelity to the fortunes of my country, faithful to her freedom, faithful to her fall.
Страница 103 - The curse of Swift was upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good.
Страница 9 - Tis true, but let it not be known, My eyes are somewhat dimmish grown; For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight, And wrinkles undistinguished pass, For I'm ashamed to use a glass; And till I see them with these eyes, Whoever says you have them, lies.
Страница 60 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Страница 189 - There is not a nation in the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation and commerce, in agriculture and manufactures, with the same rapidity in the same period ;" — speaking of Ireland since the constitution of 1782, viz., for the last twenty years.