Hy-Brasail elevated far to the west in their watery horizon. This had been the universal tradition of the ancient Irish, who supposed that a great part of Ireland had been swallowed by the sea, and that the sunken part often rose, and was seen hanging... Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy - Page 8061893Full view - About this book
| Denis Florence MacCarthy - Ballads, Irish - 1846 - 554 pages
...BLEST. BY OERALD OIUFFIN. [" The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see Hf Brağatt elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....part often rose, and was seen hanging in the horizon t Such was the popular notion. The Hy-Srasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atalantit of... | |
| Irish ballads - 1846 - 260 pages
...BLEST. BY GERALD GRIFFIN. [" The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see HyIlrasail elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....part often rose, and was seen hanging In the horizon 1 Such was the popular notion. The Hy-BnuaU of the Irish Is evidently a part of the Atalansit of Plato,*... | |
| Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...THE BLEST. GERALD GRIFFUT. " The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see Hy-Brasail elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....hanging in the horizon ! Such was the popular notion. The My-Briuail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atalantis of Plato, who, in his ' Timicus,'... | |
| Irish ballads - 1881 - 268 pages
...THE BLEST. BY QEBALD GRIFFIN. [" The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see HyBrasail elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....swallowed by the sea, and that the sunken part often rose, a^id was seen hanging in the horizon ! Such was the popular notion. The Hy-Brasail of the Irish is... | |
| Samuel Lover - 1884 - 458 pages
...THE BLEST. GERALD GRIFFIN. "The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see Hy-Brasa.il elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....part often rose, and was seen hanging in the horizon I Such was the popular notion. The By-Brasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the A Mantis of Plato,... | |
| Shafto Justin Adair Fitz-Gerald - Songs - 1901 - 272 pages
...the Island of Arran," says, " The people of Arran fancy that at certain periods they see Hy-Brasil elevated far to the west in their watery horizon....part often rose and was seen hanging in the horizon ! The HyBrasil of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atlantis of Plato, who in his ' Timseus' says... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1898 - 308 pages
...at certain periods, they see Hy-Brasail, elevated far to the west in their watery horizon. This has been the universal tradition of the ancient Irish,...hanging in the horizon : such was the popular notion. The Hy-Brasail of the Irish is evidently a part of the Atlantis of Plato ; who, in his 'Timaeus,' says... | |
| Henry Binkley Stein - Gods - 1940 - 98 pages
...universal tradition of the Irish who supposed a great part of Ireland had been swallowed up by the sea and the sunken part often rose and was seen hanging in the horizon." —(0*FlahertyJ This story fits well with the geology of the western isles of Scotland which bears... | |
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