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Page vi
... - istence problematical . This remark refers particularly to the scene of the Roilich na Riogh , or the Sepulchre of Kings , which , as the observant reader will immediately perceive , has been introduced , not with vi PREFACE .
... - istence problematical . This remark refers particularly to the scene of the Roilich na Riogh , or the Sepulchre of Kings , which , as the observant reader will immediately perceive , has been introduced , not with vi PREFACE .
Page xi
... scenes we endeavour to depict , that , in defer- ence to the prepossessions of such readers , we have , generally speaking , subdued them to a standard far below the reality . Let such readers , there- fore , before they undertake to ...
... scenes we endeavour to depict , that , in defer- ence to the prepossessions of such readers , we have , generally speaking , subdued them to a standard far below the reality . Let such readers , there- fore , before they undertake to ...
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... scene of pleasure . The sun had sunk beyond the western ocean , and rushen torches of prodigious size supplied the absence of his light . The youths and maidens of the surrounding septs glided gracefully through all the tortuous mazes ...
... scene of pleasure . The sun had sunk beyond the western ocean , and rushen torches of prodigious size supplied the absence of his light . The youths and maidens of the surrounding septs glided gracefully through all the tortuous mazes ...
Page 41
... the island , at that time garrisoned only by some wan- dering kine , but from which at present a Mar- tello tower frowns sternly down upon the scene of beauty . The song of the wood - lark , which , THE INVASION . 41.
... the island , at that time garrisoned only by some wan- dering kine , but from which at present a Mar- tello tower frowns sternly down upon the scene of beauty . The song of the wood - lark , which , THE INVASION . 41.
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... scene . One circumstance alone appeared not in accordance with the place . It was a row of bare ash - stumps , newly cut , which , as Clothra well remembered , had formed a desirable screen on the water side of the building , and for ...
... scene . One circumstance alone appeared not in accordance with the place . It was a row of bare ash - stumps , newly cut , which , as Clothra well remembered , had formed a desirable screen on the water side of the building , and for ...
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Page 4 - A NATURAL SYSTEM OF BOTANY; or, a Systematic View of the Organization, Natural Affinities, and Geographical Distribution of the whole Vegetable Kingdom : together with the Uses of the most important Species in Medicine, the Arts, &c.
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Page xiv - Irish readers who may not regret to find embodied, in a work of imagination, a synopsis of the early constitution, and of the moral history of their native land, and who may regard with an interest more permanent, if not more exciting, than that which addresses itself to the passions, an attempt at tracing, to their remotest origin, some of the influences which have concurred in the formation of the national character.