The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 56
Page 2
... English- man's fireside the broad conviction of a misrule and mis- management too long and too sluggishly endured . It may then be too late to apply remedial measures with efficacy ; and the only resource left , may be , like Caleb ...
... English- man's fireside the broad conviction of a misrule and mis- management too long and too sluggishly endured . It may then be too late to apply remedial measures with efficacy ; and the only resource left , may be , like Caleb ...
Page 11
... English subjects of the obligation of keeping Lent ; because his Majesty's object is clearly ascer- tained to have been to encourage the traffic of his country- men the Scotch , who had just then embarked largely in the herring trade ...
... English subjects of the obligation of keeping Lent ; because his Majesty's object is clearly ascer- tained to have been to encourage the traffic of his country- men the Scotch , who had just then embarked largely in the herring trade ...
Page 12
... shoot ) , that you won the victories of Poitiers and Agincourt mainly by the superio- rity of your diet . In hewing down the ranks of the foeman , much of the English army's success is of course attributed 12 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
... shoot ) , that you won the victories of Poitiers and Agincourt mainly by the superio- rity of your diet . In hewing down the ranks of the foeman , much of the English army's success is of course attributed 12 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
Page 13
... English were besieging Orleans , the Duke of Bedford sent from his head - quarters , Paris , on the Ash Wednesday of that year , five hundred carts laden with herrings , for the use of the camp during Lent , when a party of French ...
... English were besieging Orleans , the Duke of Bedford sent from his head - quarters , Paris , on the Ash Wednesday of that year , five hundred carts laden with herrings , for the use of the camp during Lent , when a party of French ...
Page 22
... English writer , that ' Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark , unfathom'd caves of ocean bear . ' To these undiscovered riches Lent would point the national eye , and direct the national energies . Very absurd would then appear ...
... English writer , that ' Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark , unfathom'd caves of ocean bear . ' To these undiscovered riches Lent would point the national eye , and direct the national energies . Very absurd would then appear ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admired Æneid appears ballad beautiful bells Béranger bien Blarney Blarney Castle Blarney stone C'est Cæsar called celebrated charm classic Cork death dwell edition Edmund Burke English Essay fair fait fancy Father Prout favourite feel France French genius George Knapp gloire glorious glory graceful grave Greek groves hath heart History honour Horace illustrious immortal Ireland Irish Italy Jesuits John Anderson jour King land Latin learned Lent literary literature Lord lyre Malbrouck melody Memoir mihi mind modern Moore muse never Notes o'er OLIVER YORKE original Paris philosophy poem poet poet's poetic poetry Portrait qu'il quæ recollect river Lee Roman Rome round SCOTT song soul spirit sweet thee thou thought tibi tion Tom Moore Trans translation troubadour Twas verse Victor Hugo vols vulgar Watergrasshill Woodcuts writers young youth εν τε
Popular passages
Page 137 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 574 - New Volumes of Standard Works in the various branches of Literature are constantly being added to this Series, "which is already unsurpassed in respect to the number, variety, and cheapness of the Works contained in it. The Publishers beg to announce the following Volumes as recently issued or now in preparation : — Goethe's Faust.
Page 582 - BOETHIUS'S Consolation of Philosophy. King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of. With an English Translation on opposite pages, Notes, Introduction, and Glossary, by Rev. S. Fox, MA To which is added the Anglo-Saxon Version of the METRES OF BOETHIUS, with a free Translation by Martin F.
Page 583 - DCL, 2 vols. SIX OLD ENGLISH CHRONICLES : viz., Asser's Life of Alfred and the Chronicles of Ethelwerd, Gildas, Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Richard of Cirencester. Edit., with Notes, by JA Giles, DCL Portrait of Alfred.