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While at Cork, Tyrconnell, in return for his great exertions, was created a Duke, and General-in-Chief, with De Rosen as second in command. A week before James reached Dublin, Hamilton had beaten the rebels at Dromore, and driven them in on Coleraine, from before which he wrote urgently for reinforcements.
Colman, Bishop of Dromore, one of the first men of his Order. When Columbkill "heard of the calling together of that General Assembly," and of the questions to be there decided, he resolved to attend, notwithstanding the stern vow of his earlier life, never to look on Irish soil again.
To appraise the real value of the work done by these two gentlemen at Derryquin and Dromore a region of some eighty-five square miles altogether it must be understood that forty years ago this part of Kerry was, with the exception of the main track to Cork, absolutely without roads, an almost impassable tract of wild mountain and morass cut up by streams, which when swollen stopped all communication even for foot passengers.
In return for your obliging offer, I can acquaint you with a delightful publication of this winter, "A Collection of Old Ballads and Poetry," in three volumes, many from Pepys's Collection at Cambridge. Percy, Bishop of Dromore, in Ireland, was the heir male of the ancient Earls of Northumberland, and the title of his collection was "Reliques of English Poetry."
The decision arrived at was the same as in France and England; the order was condemned and suppressed; and their Priory of Kilmainham, with sixteen benefices in the diocese of Dublin, and several others, in Ferns, Meath, and Dromore, passed to the succeeding order, in 1311. The state maintained by the Priors of Kilmainham, in their capacious residence, often rivalled that of the Lords Justices.
It was well observed by Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore, 'The conversation of Johnson is strong and clear, and may be compared to an antique statue, where every vein and muscle is distinct and bold. Ordinary conversation resembles an inferiour cast. On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr.
That old query, half furtive and half proud, as much as to say: 'I know she's not in the stud-book, but, d n it, I sired her! And then the old sudden gloom, which lasted but a second, and gave way again to chaff. Lennan stayed very few minutes. Never had he felt farther from his old school-chum. No. Whatever happened, Johnny Dromore must be left out.
Then, with her eyes still on his face, she went on quickly: "Only we won't talk about that now, will we? It's too cosy. I AM nice and tired. Do smoke!" But Lennan's fingers trembled so that he could hardly light that cigarette. And, watching them, she said: "Please give me one. Dad doesn't like my smoking." The virtue of Johnny Dromore! Yes! It would always be by proxy!
"What more could I do, I should like to know?" What was it that Jeremy Taylor said that old silver-tongued Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, in Ireland? "No disease cometh so much with our breath, drinking from the infected lips of others, as with the vessels of our own bodies that are ready to receive it." Shakspeare says the same thing of mirth, when he records that
The younger Colman, who attended, or rather neglected to attend his lectures, speaks of him as 'an acute frosty-faced little Dr. Dunbar, a man of much erudition, and great goodnature. Random Records, ii. 93. Mr. Mr. Hoole, I conjecture. See post, iv. 12, and Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 19. Dr. Percy, now Bishop of Dromore. Johnson, in 1764, passed some weeks at Percy's rectory. Ante, i. 486.
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