The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poets, Orators, and Prose Writers of Ireland. With Biographical Sketches and Literary Notices, Volume 1Blackie, 1897 - Irish literature |
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... youth's happy hours , In youth's happy hours ! Adieu to her meadows , her fields , wells , and bushes ! Adieu to her lawns , her moors , and her harbours ; Adieu from my heart , to her forests and arbours , All vocal with thrushes , All ...
... youth's happy hours , In youth's happy hours ! Adieu to her meadows , her fields , wells , and bushes ! Adieu to her lawns , her moors , and her harbours ; Adieu from my heart , to her forests and arbours , All vocal with thrushes , All ...
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... youths , alas ! are gone , Who lived for Erin's weal , but died For Erin's woe ! Ah ! could the men of Ireland read The names those noteless burial - stones Display to view , Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed , Their tears gush ...
... youths , alas ! are gone , Who lived for Erin's weal , but died For Erin's woe ! Ah ! could the men of Ireland read The names those noteless burial - stones Display to view , Their wounded hearts afresh would bleed , Their tears gush ...
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... youth ! Nor gods nor laws , Whose penal scourges are enough to save Ev'n damn'd fiends , can in this looser age Confine unbounded youth . Who durst presume To steal my youth's delight , my age's hope , Her father's heir , and the last ...
... youth ! Nor gods nor laws , Whose penal scourges are enough to save Ev'n damn'd fiends , can in this looser age Confine unbounded youth . Who durst presume To steal my youth's delight , my age's hope , Her father's heir , and the last ...
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... youth , " If I am a boy ( as it hath pleased you very contemptuously to name me ) I give thanks to the Lord that my carriage towards you hath been such as could minister unto you no occa- sion to despise my youth . " In 1600 he ac ...
... youth , " If I am a boy ( as it hath pleased you very contemptuously to name me ) I give thanks to the Lord that my carriage towards you hath been such as could minister unto you no occa- sion to despise my youth . " In 1600 he ac ...
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... youth was entered a gentleman commoner of Trinity College , Oxford , where it seems he was " looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries , and In 1647 Denham began to mix in political given more to ...
... youth was entered a gentleman commoner of Trinity College , Oxford , where it seems he was " looked upon as a slow and dreaming young man by his seniors and contemporaries , and In 1647 Denham began to mix in political given more to ...
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