The Carders. ConnemaraC. Knight, 1825 - Ireland |
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Agatha arms Arthur Dillon Arthur Kelly Athlone Ballinasloe Ballycarrigaclunah barge Barney beautiful Belville bogs Bourdeaux Brian O'Lamy captain Carders Castle Corrib coffin Connaught Connemara countenance county Galway court cried Sib Crostwhaite crowd despatched Dick McLoughlin Dick's dread entered escape evidence fair Falstaff fate father fear feelings fellow French Frenchman Galway Galwegian hand head heard heart Honoria honour hope horrors Inchfearris Ireland Irish island Jesuit King knew lake land least looked Lord Lough Lough Corrib Loughrea Lucy magistrate Major Hempenshaugh Manvers master McManus monarch Mullingar murder Murtagh narch never night numbers O'Lamy's O'Rourke once ould party perhaps peril Peter Plunket Plunketstown poor prisoner Rasberry Rathfinnan replied returned Roderick Roque scene schooner seemed Shamus shore silence smile smuggler soon sorrow spirit steed thing thought tidings tion troth truth turned whilst whiskey whither wild witness young ladies youth
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Page 28 - It is to be doubted, if Byron's sketch of an ocean-storm be much more sublime than these few touches of a lake-one by Limrick, in his " Ourawns." All the inconvenience of the storm, however, and little of its sublimity, was felt by Major Hempenshaugh and his crew. The murderers, hidden in the sacred ruins of the Nun's Island, listened to its bowlings with more superstitious dread. They were for the present the only tenants of the old vaulted building, that once had been a church ; into the half-buried...
Page 150 - ... the present, Arthur Dillon was interrupted in his contemplations of future happiness, now certain at least to the sanguine thoughts of a lover, by the fate of the unfortunate Murtagh, whose first crime, as well as this his last self-sacrifice, was the consequence of devoted attachment to his masters. He had been condemned to suffer the last penalty of the law, from which his timely surrender had alone, in all probability, 'saved Arthur. There was no hope of saving him; nothing left to be done,...
Page 28 - ... terrific and sublime in the tempest with all the ocean to itself, than when we can behold it not only stirring the waters, but agitating also the whole earth's surface, with all its productions, from the swaying oak to the solitary blade' of grass that quivers on the ruin:— " And when the fitful winds do sigh, Wafting the plover's lonely cry,— And when the storm sweeps loud and strong, Hymning aloft his thunder-song,— When in its might the black lough roars, Chafing within its narrow shores,...
Page 31 - O'Rourke had given way under weakness and torture, and the horror of spending many days and nights in darkness and discomfort. A fire might have been lighted in the chapel, but the islanders would not hear of the profanation ; and, moreover, smoke,