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I am sure it will be successful?" The 'Cercle' was a short prose play, in which the poet satirised the jargon of Dr. Herrenschwand, brother of the doctor I had consulted at Soleure. The play proved to be a great success. I took Poinsinet home to supper, and the poor nursling of the muses ate for four. In the morning he came to tell me that the Countess of Lismore expected me to supper.
Pat turned quickly from her task to see what this could portend, she heard a woman's voice say harshly: "Ah, have done with that thrash of music; sure, it'll be dark night itself before we're in to Lismore." There was something familiar in the coarse tones. The weirdness fell from the wail of the music as Mrs. Pat remembered the woman who had bothered her for money that morning in Carnfother.
"If your overdue ship returns safely, within a month from this time, you can borrow the money you want, without difficulty. Is that the hard truth?" "It is." "And the sum you require is twenty thousand pounds?" "Yes." "I have twenty times as much money as that, Mr. Lismore, at my sole disposal on one condition." "The condition alluded to in your letter?" "Yes."
Today his name is held in honor not by Irishmen alone, but by the Catholics and non-Catholics of the land of his adoption. There are other saints who either labored in person with Columcille or perpetuated the work he accomplished in Caledonia; and their names add to the glory of Ireland, their birth-land. Thus St. Moluag converted the people of Lismore, and afterwards died at Rosemarkie; St.
One of these castles, to which most importance was attached, Ardfinan on the Suir, was no sooner built than taken by Donald More O'Brien, on midsummer day, when four knights and its other defenders were slain. Another was rising at Lismore, on the Blackwater, under the guardianship of Robert Barry, one of the brood of Nesta, when it was attacked and Barry slain.
The thief in vain endeavoured to escape out of the country, from Cork, Lismore, and Waterford, "but no ship into which he entered found a wind to sail, while all the other ships did." And the conscience stricken thief declared, in his dying confession, that he used to see Saint Kieran "stopping with his crozier, every ship into which he entered."
"My husband heard it reported in the City yesterday that he was seriously embarrassed by the failure " A loud burst of applause made the end of the sentence inaudible. A famous member of Parliament had risen to propose the third Resolution. The polite old man took his seat, and the lady left the hall to join her friend. "Well, Mrs. Callender, has Mr. Lismore disappointed you?" "Far from it!
The singular behaviour of the Earl Marischal in 1751-1754 will afterwards be illustrated by the letters of Pickle, who drew much of his information from the unsuspicious old ambassador of Frederick the Great to the Court of Versailles. The Duke of York, Charles's brother, was on the seaboard of France in autumn 1745. Sempil, Balhaldie, Lismore, were intriguing and interfering.
The rule ascribed to Mochuda is certainly a document of great antiquity and may well have emanated from the seventh century and from the author whose name it bears. The tradition of Lismore and indeed of the Irish Church is constant in attributing it to him.
We have thus an unbroken chain of great names, a series of Irishmen whom the succeeding ages have brought forth to enlighten and instruct lesser men; and Ireland, in the twentieth century, is not less attached to religion and learning than she was when Clonmacnois flourished and the saintly Carthage ruled at Lismore. By Rev. Columba Edmonds, O.S.B. St.
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