Ballyblunder: An Irish StoryJohn W. Parker and Son, 1860 - 291 pages |
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Archie Kindly Archie's Baby's bad look Ballacroogh Ballyblunder better big Ben Brady boat boys brothers Fortescue Burke Byrne Capt'in Archie cheek COVENTRY PATMORE craythur cried Archie cutty-sark dear death divil Donovan Dublin Castle eyes face Faith Faix Fanshawe Father Hogan Father Maguire fear followed friends gintlemen girls hand head heard heart Horrigan James Rut Jane Jim Byrne Kate's Kindly's knew Lady O'Neal laughed leedies lips Loch Croogh mama meself mind Miss Baby Miss Kate Miss Kindly Misther Findon Monk Moony mother mountain muttered never night niver Noodle Noodle's nothin O'Neil's tower papa pardin plaze poor priests Purdy replied riverence Robert Doyle rock Roman Catholic Church sheep sheep-killing shure silence sirr sister Slaughmacuish smile spot stood sure talking tears tell there's thought Tim Higgins told tould turned voice whiskey whispered word yees
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Page 229 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 229 - Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd...
Page 229 - The fix'd yet tender traits that streak The languor of the placid cheek, And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not. now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon...
Page 65 - Even its praises must offend thee, Founded on another's woe: Though my many faults defaced me, Could no other arm be found, Than the one which once embraced me, To inflict a cureless wound?