Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1896 - 383 pages |
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Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, Volume 2 lady Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
Sir Samuel Ferguson in the Ireland of His Day, Volume 2 lady Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson Affichage du livre entier - 1896 |
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admirable affectionate Alfred Perceval Graves ancient bard battle of Clontarf beautiful Bishop Brehon Laws Brittany Cæsar Celtes Celtic character charm Chesney Church Congal Dathi dear death delightful Dr Ingram Dr Stokes Dr Todd Dr Whitley Stokes Dublin English expression feel Ferdiah Ferguson wrote following letter friendship Gael genius give Graves happy heart honour hope Howth interest Ireland Kane kind kindly labour Lady Ferguson land learning literary literature look Lord Lord Plunket MacCarthy memory ment mind monuments Morbihan Museum never noble Ogham inscriptions pleasure poems poet poetic poetry present Professor published Record Office Reeves Royal Irish Academy Sir Samuel Ferguson song sonnet spirit stone Stonehenge sweet sympathy tell thanks thee THOMAS AIRD thou thought tion translation tumulus Vere verse Villemarqué volume Western Gael wife William Winterbotham words writing
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Page 256 - Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. " Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies : But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 41 - What, in ill thoughts again ? Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither : Ripeness is all : Come on.
Page 353 - Tis the weakness in strength that I cry for! my flesh, that I seek In the Godhead ! I seek and I find it. O Saul, it shall be A Face like my face that receives thee : a Man like to me, Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever! a Hand like this hand Shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ stand !
Page 256 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 349 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear : But now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Page 1 - Yet what binds us, friend to friend, But that soul with soul can blend ? Soul-like were those hours of yore; Let us walk in soul once more ! " Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee ; Take, — I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me !" " O, that is beautiful, — ' beautiful exceedingly !' Who translated it ? "
Page 42 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 182 - O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live: Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth — And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 156 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 327 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.