 | Joseph Holt - Dissenters - 1838 - 446 pages
...— "dear and fair (Eolian love, Resembles Venus bright, or gentle Jove." And "honest Dick Millikin," who seems to have written the far famed " Groves of...in the open air." 1794. road leading from Dublin to Round wood ; and the manner in which I executed the work pleased him so well that he continued me many... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ballads, English - 1839 - 382 pages
...Donoughmore. Oh, ullagoane, &c. There's statues gracing this noble place in, All heathen goddesses so fair,— Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air.* * Alas! these statues were knocked down, by the magical touch of the auctioneer's hammer, to Sir Thomas... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 370 pages
...Donoughmore. Oh, ullagoane, &c. There's statues gracing this noble place in, All heathen goddesses so fair, — Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air.* • Alas ! these statues were knocked down, by the magical touch of the auctioneer's hammer, to Sir... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 668 pages
...MS. of the author :— There 's statues gracing thin noble place in, All heathen goddeesea so fuir— Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air. Samuel Lover, in his ' Lyrics of Ireland,' 1S58, gives the following variation in the second line :—... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...from Croker's Popular Songs of Ireland : — " There's statues gracing This noble place in — All heathen gods, And nymphs so fair ; Bold Neptune, Plutarch,...And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air !" Mr. Maloney, in his late account of the " palace made o' windows," has evidently had these verses... | |
 | A.A. Griffith - Elocution - 1865 - 260 pages
...relations to my Lord Donoughmore. There 's statues gracing this noble place in, All heathen goddesses so fair — Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air. So now to finish this brave narration, Which my poor geni' could not entwine ; But were I Homer, or... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 546 pages
...beeches, Standing in order For to guard the flood. There's statues gracing This noble place in — • All heathen gods And nymphs so fair ; Bold Neptune, Plutarch,...And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air ! • So now to finish This brave narration, Which my poor geni Could not entwine ; But were I Homer,... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 542 pages
...verdant mud ; Besides the leeches, And groves of beeches, Standing in order For to guard the flood. Bold Neptune, Plutarch, And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air ! • So now to finish This brave narration, Which my poor geni Could not entwine ; But were I Homer,... | |
 | George James De Wilde - 1872 - 274 pages
...the " Groves of Blarney " — " There's statutes gracing this noble place in All heathen goddesses so fair — Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus All standing naked in the open air." There are excellent accounts by Mr. Pretty, FSA, formerly 'of Northampton, of Roman remains discovered... | |
 | Archaeology - 1871 - 546 pages
...beeches, Standing in order For to guard the flood. There's statues gracing This noble place in— All heathen gods And nymphs so fair ; Bold Neptune, Plutarch,...And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air ! • So now to finish This brave narration, Which my poor geni Could not entwine ; But were I Homer,... | |
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There's statues gracing This noble place in — All heathen gods And nymphs so fair ; Bold Neptune, Plutarch, And Nicodemus, All standing naked In the open air ! So now to finish This brave narration. 
