Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: Popular songs, illustrative of the French invasions of IrelandPercy Society, 1847 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 70 - Limerick, where, amidst the ringing of all the bells, in honour of the advent, there was ushered in a brother-poet, who must needs pay his personal respects to the author of Marmion.
Página 44 - Shan Van Vocht; The French are on the sea, Says the Shan Van Vocht; Oh ! the French are in the Bay, They'll be here without delay, And the Orange will decay, Says the Shan Van Vocht.
Página 21 - We are here, sixteen sail, great and small, scattered up and down in a noble bay, and so dispersed that there are not two together in any spot, save one, and there they are now so close, that if it blows to-night as it did last night, they will inevitably run foul of each other, unless one of them prefers driving on shore.
Página 45 - And will Ireland then be free? Says the Shan Van Vocht; Will Ireland then be free? Says the Shan Van Vocht; Yes! Ireland shall be free, From the centre to the sea; Then hurrah for Liberty! Says the Shan Van Vocht.
Página 70 - O'Kelly, great and good." Sir Walter's five shillings were at once forthcoming ; and the bard, in order that Miss Edgeworth might display equal generosity, pointed out, in a little volume of his works (for which, moreover, we had all to subscribe), this pregnant couplet — " Scott, Morgan, Edgeworth, Byron, prop of Greece, Are characters whose fame not soon will cease.
Página 44 - Oh ! the French are in the Bay, They'll be here by break of day And the Orange will decay Says the Shan Van Vocht.
Página 44 - And the Orange will decay, Says the Shan Van Vocht. And where will they have their camp? Says the Shan Van Vocht; Where will they have their camp? Says the Shan Van Vocht...
Página 35 - ... day at two o'clock, promising to pay for them *, and threatening in case of refusal to burn Carrickfergus, and afterwards to come up and burn this town also : — with which demand the gentlemen of Belfast thought it best to comply.
Página xx - General, as an hostage for his return. But the poor Frenchmen could not stay for this. At the time prefixed, they began to serve themselves with meat and drink ; having been in such want, that they were glad to eat raw oats to sustain nature. They accordingly took all the food they could find, with some linen and wearing-apparel.
Página 45 - Says the Shan Van Vocht. Then what will the yeomen do ? Says the Shan Van Vocht; What will the yeomen do ? Says the Shan Van Vocht. What should the yeomen do But throw off the Red and Blue, And swear that they'll be true To the Shan Van Vocht ? And what colour will they wear? Says the Shan Van Vocht; What colour will they wear Says the Shan Van Vocht; What colour should be seen Where our fathers' homes have been But our own immortal Green ? Says the Shan Van Vocht.