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Read Ebook: The Round Towers of Ireland; or The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans by O Brien Henry
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev PageEbook has 1213 lines and 196025 words, and 25 pages"G. HIGGINS." "Please receive the assurance of my consideration, and in confident reliance that you will use your influence in this matter, and favour me with the upshot instantly after Monday's Board,--I remain, ever sincerely yours, "HENRY O'BRIEN." "HENRY O'BRIEN. "J. H. SINGER. "H. O'Brien, Esq." "DEAR DR. SINGER,--I do not quite understand the closing observation of your last letter. If the Academy mean me a kindness, I should trust that my nature is too sensible of such advances not suitably to acknowledge it; and I should be sorry that, either from obscurity in the diction, or want of quickness in my perception, I were to lose the opportunity of making a grateful return. Let me, therefore, put the following interrogatory to set myself right, viz.:-- "My Essay, however, does not want those new papers: the Council, therefore, will please have them sealed and handed over to the custody of Mr. Tims, my bookseller, in Grafton Street. The only additions which I shall insist upon being inserted are those contained in my letters in appropriate places, as I shall point out. "HENRY O'BRIEN." "SIR,--I am directed by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy to inform you that they feel themselves compelled, in consequence of your late letters, to decline the publication of your Essay, or the maintaining any further correspondence with you on the subject. "Your Essay and the additional matter will be sent, as you desire, to Mr. Tims, Grafton Street, as soon as a copy of the former can be taken.--I am, sir, your most obedient, "H. O'Brien, Esq." All communications addressed to me, to the care of my publisher, Mr. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, St. Paul's, London, will reach me, and be attended to. THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND; THE HISTORY OF THE TUATH-DE-DANAANS BY HENRY O'BRIEN, ESQ., A.B. "Hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia." CICERO. ... "were of fame, And had been glorious in another day." BYRON. SECOND EDITION. TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, ETC. ETC. ETC. MY LORD MARQUIS, Many reasons concur why I should feel ambitious to associate your name with the following production. To enumerate these would neither become my humility, nor be acceptable to your good taste. But there is one motive which, as it is the offspring of the heart, implanted there at a period when adulation was not dreamt of, I may be allowed to particularise,--I was born upon your estates--you are the landlord of that spot which imparted my earliest images--the first soarings of my fancy were derived from that scene--and to the native notes which I have lisped in that primitive and retired region, more than to the vaunted advantages of a subsequent collegiate career, am I beholden for the clue with which I have traversed the ancient world; and of which Envy herself must yet acknowledge, that I have here rectified the history in its very widest amplitude--as well sacred as profane. My Lord Marquis, Your Lordship's most devoted And most faithful, humble Servant, HENRY O'BRIEN. PAGE DEVENISH ROUND TOWER 38 ARDMORE " " 71 CLONDALKIN " " 101 EFFIGY OF FARRAGH, OR MORIAGAN 138 SAMONA OF BUDDHA 140 ROUND TOWER, WITH DEVOTEE ON SUMMIT 169 SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE FOUND AT VINDOLANA 223 PALENCIAN SCULPTURE OF THE SYMBOLIC "TREE," WITH FIGURES 229 PYTHAGOREAN TRIANGLE OF TEN 268 SYMBOLIC CRESCENT-ORNAMENTS 273, 274 EFFIGY OF CRUCIFIED BUDDHA, SACA, OR MACHA 296 BRECHIN ROUND TOWER , WITH DOUBLE-ARCH AND EFFIGIES 299 OBELISK AT SANDWICK 306 PHOENICIAN MEDALS, STAMPED WITH CROSS, LAMB, AND ROSARY 314 SHAFT OF CROSS AT FORRES 316 " " " REVERSE SIDE OF SAME 319 MONOLITH AT CARNAC 322 SCULPTURE IN KNOCKMOY ABBEY 329, 330 SCULPTURE ON TEMPLE AT KALABCHE 341, 342 KILCULLEN, CROSS AT 338 CLONMACNOISE, " 358 FINGLAS " 366 KELLS " 491 FACSIMILE OF MS. DISCOVERED AT ICOLMKILL 419 PHEELEAS, OR ORACLE-TUBE, FOUND AT BALLYMONEY 460 GLENDALOUGH, CURIOUS SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE ON RUINS OF 467 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page Prev Page |
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