History of Ireland, Critical and Philosophical, Volume 1 |
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Common terms and phrases
Aileel amongst ancestors ancient appears Ard-Rie Ard-Rieship bardic history bardic literature bards battle of Moy beautiful Boyne Britain Cairbry Cathair Ceasair centuries champions chap CHAPTER character chief Christian Clanna Conaill Carna Conairy Conn Cormac mac Art Cuculain cycle Dagda Diarmid divine druids Dūn Emain Macha Eocha epic Erin ethnic Europe fact Fergus Fianna Eireen Fians Finn Fintann Fir-bolgs Fomorians Gaul genius goddess gods Goll mac Morna Greek Heber heroes historians history of Ireland hound imagination Irish bardic Irish history Irish mythology island isle King of Tara Lęgairey lake land legend Leinster magic Mananān medięval Milesian Milesius monarch Mōr Morna mound mountains Moy Tura Munster mythical mythology nations Nemedians Niall Ossianic Patrick Picts plain princes probably Queen Meave race raths Red Branch reign river Roman Rome Rury Saxons slain sons stone Tara tomb traditions Tuatha De Danān Tuhal Tectmar Ulster Ultonian warriors weird
Popular passages
Page 251 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flics.
Page 41 - But all around, in surging, tumultuous motion, come and go the gorgeous, unearthly beings that long ago emanated from bardic minds, a most weird and mocking world. Faces rush out of the darkness, and as swiftly retreat again. Heroes expand into giants, and dwindle into goblins, or fling aside the heroic form and gambol as buffoons ; gorgeous palaces are blown asunder like...
Page 35 - ... doughty deed of which a contemporaneous note was not taken, and which has not been incorporated in the annals of his country. To think that this mighty fabric of recorded events, so stupendous in its dimensions, so clean and accurate in its details, so symmetrical and elegant, should be after all a mirage and delusion, a gorgeous bubble, whose glowing rotundity, whose rich hues, azure, purple, amethyst and gold, vanish at a touch and are gone, leaving a sorry remnant over which the patriot disillusionized...
Page 199 - I cannot help regarding this age and the great personages moving therein as incomparably higher in intrinsic worth than the corresponding ages of Greece. In Homer, Hesiod, and the Attic poets, there is polish and artistic form, absent in the existing monuments of Irish heroic thought, but the gold, the ore itself, is here massier and more pure, the sentiment deeper and more tender, the audacity and freedom more exhilarating, the reach of...
Page 25 - Apollo's priests, who has here a stately grove and renowned temple of round form, beautified with many rich gifts. That there is a city likewise consecrated to this god, whose citizens are most of them harpers, who, playing on the harp, chant sacred hymns to Apollo in the temple, setting forth his glorious acts.
Page 139 - All he had loved, and moulded into thought, From shape, and hue, and odour, and sweet sound, Lamented Adonais. Morning sought Her eastern watchtower, and her hair unbound, Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground, Dimmed the aerial eyes that kindle day; Afar the melancholy thunder moaned, Pale Ocean in unquiet slumber lay, And the wild winds flew round, sobbing in their dismay.
Page 39 - The legends represent the imagination of the country ; they are that kind of history which a nation desires to possess.
Page 41 - ... and warriors, legislators and druids, realseeming antique shapes of men and women, marked by many a earn, piled above heroes, illustrious with battles, elections, conventions, melts away into thin air. The glare of bardic light flees away ; the broad, firm highway is torn asunder and dispersed ; even the narrow, doubtful track is not seen ; we seem to foot it hesitatingly, anxiously, from stepping-stone to steppingstone set at long distances in some quaking Cimmerian waste. But all around, in...
Page 56 - The gigantic conceptions of heroism and strength, with which the forefront of Irish history thronged, prove the great future of this race and land...
Page 350 - Airgthech will be found a short distance to the east of it. There is a chest of stone about him in the earth. There are his two rings of silver, and his two bunne doat [bracelets?], and his torque of silver on his chest; and there is a pillar stone at his earn; and an Ogumis [inscribed] on the end of the pillar stone which is in the earth. And what is in it is, EOCHAID AIRGTHECH HERE.