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Page 55
... grass and strew it behind them . 66 He who looks upon this Hebrew grave - yard , can- not but bethink himself of the devotion with which that nation is represented in the sacred writings , as regarding the burial places of their ...
... grass and strew it behind them . 66 He who looks upon this Hebrew grave - yard , can- not but bethink himself of the devotion with which that nation is represented in the sacred writings , as regarding the burial places of their ...
Page 61
... grass , torilis nodosa , knotted hedge parsley , and arenaria rubra , purple sandwort . - On the muddy shores , cochlearia Danica , Danish scurvy grass ; and on the adjacent North wall , ruppia mari- tima , tassel pond weed , sedum acre ...
... grass , torilis nodosa , knotted hedge parsley , and arenaria rubra , purple sandwort . - On the muddy shores , cochlearia Danica , Danish scurvy grass ; and on the adjacent North wall , ruppia mari- tima , tassel pond weed , sedum acre ...
Page 62
... grass , flowering about August , a plant chiefly , though not exclusively con- fined to maritime situations , and deemed the most inferior of grasses for agricultural purposes ; riccia fluitans , floating branched riccia , and lepidium ...
... grass , flowering about August , a plant chiefly , though not exclusively con- fined to maritime situations , and deemed the most inferior of grasses for agricultural purposes ; riccia fluitans , floating branched riccia , and lepidium ...
Page 68
... grass , flourishes abundantly . Continuing the latter course about half a mile , to where a lead mine was discovered and abandoned , a turn of the road leads into the town of CLONTARF , the Marathon of Ireland ; but , although invested ...
... grass , flourishes abundantly . Continuing the latter course about half a mile , to where a lead mine was discovered and abandoned , a turn of the road leads into the town of CLONTARF , the Marathon of Ireland ; but , although invested ...
Page 94
... grass ; lychnis dioica , red or white campion , commonly called bachelor's button ; scirpus glaucus , club rush . - On the old walls , valeriana rubra , red valerian ; antirrhinum cymbalaria , ivy - leaved snap - dragon - and on the ...
... grass ; lychnis dioica , red or white campion , commonly called bachelor's button ; scirpus glaucus , club rush . - On the old walls , valeriana rubra , red valerian ; antirrhinum cymbalaria , ivy - leaved snap - dragon - and on the ...
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abbey acres afterwards ancient annual rent annum arable Archbishop of Dublin Balgriffin Balrothery Barnewall Baron Bishop Bray called Canc castle Castleknock century chancel chapel Chapelizod chief Christ Church Christopher Clondalkin Clontarf common Coolock county of Dublin crown Dalkey Dean demesne died seised Earl Edward English erected Esker Eustace Fagan Finglas Fitz flowering forfeited glebe granted grass Hamilton heir Henry hill Hollywood Howth impropriate Inquis inquisition Ireland Irish James Kildare Kilmainham Kilternan King king's knight lands Liffey Lusk Malahide manor Meath messuages mill monument mountain Newcastle Nicholas notice Palmerstown parish parliament passed patent Patrick's Cathedral Portmarnock Portrane possessions prebend prebendary present prior proprietor Rathcoole Rathfarnham rectory regal visitation Richard river road Robert rocks Roman Catholic ruins Santry seised side stone Swords Talbot Tallagh Taylor thereof Thomas tion tithes town townland vicar vicarage village visitation of 1615 walls William wood
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Page 81 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 301 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time?
Page 55 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Page 345 - VILLA.* WOULD you that Delville I describe ? Believe me, Sir, I will not gibe: For who would be satirical Upon a thing so very small ? You scarce upon the borders enter, Before you're at the very centre. A single crow can make it night, When o'er your farm she takes her flight : Yet, in this narrow compass, we Observe a vast variety ; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales...
Page 346 - Observe a vast variety; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales, and woods and fields, And hay, and grass, and corn, it yields: All to your haggard...
Page 142 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Page 203 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 820 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 417 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Page 55 - And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.