The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork: Containing a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical and Topographical Description Thereof, Volume 1 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abbey acres adjacent alias ancient anno Ballyhea Bandon Bantry barony Barry Barrymore belonged bishop of Cork Black-water Boyle building built Buttevant called Carbery Carew castle Castlemartyr Charles charter city of Cork Cloyne Courcey daughter died Dublin Duhallow earl of Cork earl of Desmond Edward English entire rect erected Fermoy Fitz-Gerald formerly Gallaway Glebe granted ground handsome harbour heirs Henry impropriator improvements inhabitants inscription Ireland Irish island John Kanturk Kerry king James king's Kinsale knights lands late letters patent Limerick Lismore lord Mac Carty Mac Carty's Macroomp manor Maurice mayor miles mountains Mourne abbey Munster Muskery Orrery parliament plantations pleasant plowlands preb Proxy queen repair Richard Cox river Robert Roche rock ruins seat side sir Richard sir Richard Boyle Skiddy stone Taxed Thomas town tract Vide viscount walls William Youghal
Popular passages
Page 128 - The stately sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale : And arching proud his neck , with oary feet Bears forward fierce , and guards his osier-isle , Protective of his young.
Page 302 - midst the desert fruitful fields arise, That, crown'd with tufted trees and springing corn, Like verdant isles, the sable waste adorn.
Page 333 - Bally-houra hills to the north, or, as Spenser terms them, the mountains of Mole ; Nagle mountains to the south ; and the mountains of Kerry to the west. It commanded a view of above half the breadth of Ireland ; and must have been, when the adjacent uplands were wooded, a most pleasant and romantic situation; from whence, no doubt, Spenser drew several parts of the scenery of his poem. The river Mulla, which he more than once has introduced in his poems, ran through his grounds.
Page 142 - The palace stone, looks gay. Thy crowded ports, Where rising masts an endless prospect yield, With labour burn, and echo to the shouts Of hurried sailor, as he hearty waves His last adieu, and, loosening every sheet, Resigns the spreading vessel to the wind.
Page 277 - Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf, Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf ; Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet, Rocks at their side, and torrents at their feet; Or lazy lakes, unconscious of a flood, Whose dull brown Naiads ever sleep in mud.
Page 119 - Th' inspiring breeze ; and meditate the book Of Nature ever open; aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song. Here, as I steal along the sunny wall, Where Autumn basks, with fruit empurpled deep, My pleasing theme continual prompts my thought : Presents the downy peach ; the shining plum ; The ruddy, fragrant nectarine ; and dark, Beneath his ample leaf, the luscious fig.
Page 241 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confus'd : Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Page 232 - And on the broken pavement here and there Doth many a stinking sprat and herring lie ; A brandy and tobacco shop is near, And hens, and dogs, and hogs, are feeding by : And here a sailor's jacket hangs to dry : At every door are sun-burnt matrons seen, Mending old nets to catch the scaly fry ; Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between ; Scolds answer foul-mouth'd scolds ; bad neighbourhood, I ween.
Page 194 - Which shade and shelter from the hill derives, While the kind river wealth and beauty gives, And in the mixture of all these appears Variety, which all the rest endears. This scene had some bold Greek or British bard Beheld of old, what stories had we heard Of fairies, satyrs, and the nymphs their dames, Their feasts, their revels, and their am'rous flames? 'Tis still the same, although their airy shape All but a quick poetic sight escape.
Page 296 - ... rebellion, Cromwell sent him with a letter to Col. Phaire, then Governor of Cork, in which was an order to execute the bearer. Magner, who suspected foul play, had scarce left Clonmel, when he opened the letter, read the contents, and sealing it up, instead of proceeding towards Cork, turned off to Mallow, and delivered it to the officer who commanded there, telling him that Cromwell ordered him to carry it to Col.