The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volumen4George Bonham |
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Página 44 - Gol or lamentation, in which he was answered by that of the head; and then, as before, both united in the general full chorus. Thus alternately were the song and choruses performed during the night.
Página 18 - Beauty scorns to dwell Where Use is exiled. At the awful sound The terrace sinks spontaneous; on the green, Broidered with crisped knots, the tonsile yews Wither and fall; the fountain dares no more To fling its wasted crystals through the sky, But pours salubrious o'er the parched lawn Rills of fertility.
Página 34 - ... applying to each other, formed a circular and conical perforation through the whole length, resembling that of a trumpet or horn. To secure the pieces in this position they were bound together on the outside by a long fillet of thin brass, about an inch and quarter broad, wrapped round them in a spiral from one end to the other, with upwards of an inch of interval between the rolls, and fastened to the wood with small brass nails. The ends were secured by circular plates, probably of the same...
Página 13 - A very fair hall there is, and a stately staircase and fair dining-room carrying the proportion of the hall ; fine garden and mighty spacious orchards, and they say they bear good store of fruit. I observed on either side of his garden there is a dove-house, placed one opposite to the other in the corner of the garden, and 'twixt the garden and orchards a most convenient place for apricots or some such tender fruit, to be planted against the dove-house wall, that by the advantage of the heat thereof...
Página 34 - ... from which the following extract is made : — " It seems to have been originally a solid piece, which in that state was split from end to end ; each of the pieces into which it was thus divided was then hollowed or grooved on the inside, and tapering in such a manner that, when joined again, these grooves, applying to each other, formed a circular and conical perforation through the whole length, resembling that of a trumpet or horn. To secure the pieces in this position they were bound together...
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Página 44 - The genealogy, rank, possessions, the virtues and vices of the dead were rehearsed, and a number of interrogations were addressed to the deceased : as, Why did he die ? If married, whether his wife was faithful to him, his sons dutiful, or good hunters or warriors ? If a woman, whether her daughters were fair or chaste ? If a young man, whether he had been crossed in love ? or if the blue-eyed maids of Erin treated him with scorn...
Página 3 - ... a man mall ever fee, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build ftately, fooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.
Página 18 - Pope, he impressed a vast deal of beauty upon a very small spot of ground : and it is not improbable that Pope, with whom he lived in habits of intimacy, taught him to soften into a curve the obdurate straight line of the Dutch ; to melt the terrace into a swelling bank, and to open his walks to catch the neighbouring country.