At the Rising of the Moon: Irish Stories and Studies

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McClure, 1893 - 240 страница
 

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Страница 174 - Best pattern of true friends! beware; You pay too dearly for your care If, while your tenderness secures My life, it must endanger yours: For such a fool was never found Who pulled a palace to the ground, Only to have the ruins made Materials for a house decayed.
Страница 170 - It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Страница 102 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep: And Bahram, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
Страница 102 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it ; Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself. In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage...
Страница 239 - Alas, my lord, my life is not a thing Worthy your noble thoughts ! 'tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Страница 93 - In a moment their kippeens clashed ; in another, hundreds of kippeens crashed together, and the grandest fight ever fought in Connemara raged over Callanan's Field. After the first roar of defiance the men had to keep their breath for the hitting, so the shout of triumph and the groan as one fell were the only sounds that broke the music of the kippeens clashing and clicking on one another, or striking home with a thud. Never was Long Mat nobler : he rushed ravaging through the enemy, shattering...
Страница 100 - ... coffins jogged and jolted as if the two dead men were struggling to get out and lead the rush ; neck to neck they reached the churchyard, and the hearses jammed in the gate. Behind them the carts crashed into one another, and the mourners shouted as if they were mad. But the quick wit of the Aughavanna men triumphed, for they seized their long coffin and dragged it in, and Long Mat Murnane won his last race. The shout they gave then deafened the echo up in the mountains, so that it has never...
Страница 91 - " Whoop for Aughavanna ! " Around them a mob of women, old men and children, looked on breathlessly. It was dull weather, and the mists had crept half-way down the dark mountain walls, as if to have a nearer look at the fight. As the chapel clock struck five, Long Mat Murnane gave the signal. Down the Village he came, rejoicing in his strength, out between the two last houses, past the churchyard and into Callanan's Field ; he looked every inch...
Страница 6 - ... walls were left. He could see nothing, but the child's cry guided him and then in a corner he found a woman lying huddled on a heap of fallen plaster and laths ; her face was to the wall, her left arm clutched a tiny baby. He knelt down by her and touched her forehead — she was dead. By her dress he knew she came from the Arran Islands. Perhaps she had been been brought to the
Страница 169 - He was one of those weak well-meaning fellows it is an affliction to know. You could not keep from liking him, though you groaned to think what a fool he could be. Since he was poor, he went to Australia to make money. The day he started they strolled up to the Castle together for the last time. Their way passed the cool church, and they went in.

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