| 1830 - 570 Seiten
...the person of Friar John, of which it may be said, Ex uno, tyc. For the edification of our friends in the • first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea' we prefer giving the following facts, which occurred in the dominions of the Emperor Maximilian of... | |
| 1830 - 568 Seiten
...good which hey have done us ! IRELAND. I WONDER whether a body might just ask, What maggot has bitten the " first ' flower of the earth, and first gem of ' the sea," at this moment ! Or, rather, what torpedo has got hold of her ! Still as a mouse, while all England... | |
| William Cobbett - 1830 - 1046 Seiten
...good which they have done us ! IRELAND. I WONDBR whether a body might just ask, What maggot has bitten the " first " flower of the earth, and first gem of " the sea," at this moment ! Or, rather, what torpedo has got hold of her ! StiU as a mouse, while all England... | |
| 1833 - 388 Seiten
...Belloua, but that with the peculiar modesty, so inherent in natives of what O'Connell once called " the first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea," he accompanied his protestations of love by enquiries, which the lady deemed too minute, into the nature... | |
| William Rae Wilson - 1835 - 500 Seiten
...earth ;" which is certainly as brilliantly happy a compliment as that Moore has paid to Ireland : — " First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea." Yet this same " piece of heaven " seems to be peopled from another place ; for all at once my reveries... | |
| 1838 - 332 Seiten
...which might give you a hint what it once was. " Ireland as sho used to he, great, glorious and free, The first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea! " " Mait nout avons change tout cela ! " Now sinco you have owned never having heen there, I need not... | |
| 1843 - 678 Seiten
...Oh, blow away, my darling," said the merry-looking gentleman, with a fine rich brogue, redolent of the " first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea," apostrophizing the wind that howled and raged in fury around the invulnerable cabin — ''blow away... | |
| Knox (Captain, Charles Henry) - 1843 - 474 Seiten
...this moment, whilst Harry was meditating on this singular exhibition of steeple cbace polemics that the first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea alone could have afforded ; the race-course became suddenly a scene of indescribable confusion. Mr.... | |
| 1843 - 708 Seiten
...Oh, blow away, my darling," said the merry-looking gentleman, with a fine rich brogue, redolent of the " first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea," apostrophizing the wind that howled and raged in fury around the invulnerable ca'iin — " blow away... | |
| George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 Seiten
...all spots and the place of all places ; the whereabout which the poet dreamed of when he spoke of " the first flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea ;" and once more here, too, not to look upon it for a moment, and then depart, but to stay, to live,... | |
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