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" Nature embellish'd the tint Of thy fields, and thy mountains so fair, Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of slavery there? No! Freedom, whose smile we shall never resign, Go, tell our invaders, the Danes, That 'tis sweeter to... "
The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq - Page 98
by Thomas Moore - 1825 - 6 pages
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Romantic Ireland, Volume 1

Milburg Francisco Mansfield, Blanche McManus Mansfield, Blanche McManus - Ireland - 1904 - 322 pages
...Kinkora no more. That star of the field, which so often hath poured Its beam on the battle, is set; But enough of its glory remains on each sword To light us to victor)' yet." Many have doubted whether the victory was really in favour of the Irish. It is generally,...
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Oratory of the South: From the Civil War to the Present Time

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - American literature - 1908 - 348 pages
...sweetest poet that "The star of the field, which so often hath pour'd Its beams on the battle, is set; But enough of its glory remains on each sword To light us to victory yet." THE DIVISION OF TEXAS JOSEPH W. BAILEY United States Senator from Texas [Extract from a speech delivered...
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Historical Ballad Poetry of Ireland

M. J. Brown - Ballads - 1912 - 284 pages
...Kinkora no more. That star of the field which so often hath pour'd Its beam on the battle, is set ; But enough of its glory remains on each sword, To light...embellish'd the tint Of thy fields and thy mountains so fan? Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of slavery there ? No ! Freedom whose...
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W.E. Gladstone nelle sue relazioni con l'Italia

Bonaventura Zumbini - Great Britain - 1914 - 414 pages
...della stanza originale, al quale i due citati versi appartengono: Mononia i when Nature embellish 'd the tint Of thy fields and thy mountains so fair,...intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of stavery there? Applicando le immagini del Poeta irlandese all'Italia, l'oratore voleva significar quel...
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Memorials of Dixie-land: Orations, Essays, Sketches, and Poems on Topics ...

Lucian Lamar Knight - American literature - 1919 - 632 pages
...Kinkora no more; The star of the field which so often hath poured Its beam on the battle is set; But enough of its glory remains on each sword To light us to victory yet." THE PURITAN IN THE SOUTH. [Full text of an address delivered at the unveiling of a granite boulder,...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 11

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1884 - 500 pages
...Kincora no more ! That star of the field, which so often has poured Its beam on the battle, is set; But enough of its glory remains on each sword To light us to victory yet ! " So sings Thomas Moore in one of his beautiful I rish melodies ; and when hereafter you hear or...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 15

English periodicals - 1884 - 1104 pages
...song is Moore's ' Remember the Glories of Brian the Brave.' Here the Munster farmer can read : — Mononia ! when Nature embellish'd the tint Of thy...tyrant should print The footstep of Slavery there ? Moore also contributes ' Silent, 0 Moyle ! be the Roar of thy Water,' a song whose political meaning...
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Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters as translated into English by Owen ...

Michael O'Clery - History - 2003 - 398 pages
...Kincora no more, That star of the field, which so often had poured Its beam on the battle, is set, But enough of its glory remains on each sword To light us to victory yet." The battle of Clontarf is mentioned by some ancient foreign writers, and Lanigan in his Ecclesiastical...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume III

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 592 pages
...of a house and city life. — Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1814). Mononia, when nature embellished the tint Of thy fields and thy mountains so fair,...tyrant should print The footstep of slavery there J T. Moore, Irish Melodies, i. ("War Song," 1814). Monsieur, Philippe, Due d'0r!6ans, brother of Louis...
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Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Julia M. Wright - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 19 pages
...to "Remember the glories of BRIEN the brave, / Tho' the days of the hero are o'er" and reminded that "enough of its glory remains on each sword, / To light us to victory yet!" (IM, 5). In "The Harp that Once through Tara's Halls," the speaker laments, "So sleeps the pride of...
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