 When I commenced my station, I started from what is called the " beds," and God help St. Patrick if he lay upon them : they are sharp stones placed circularly in the earth, with the spike ends of them up, one circle within another ; and the manner in...  Father Butler, and the Lough Dearg Pilgrim - Page 168by William Carleton - 1839 - 201 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 508 pages
...the place is matchless, and if there be a purgatory in the Other world, it may very well be said that there is a fair rehearsal of it in the county of Donegal...as the innermost, resembles precisely that in which schoobboys enter the walls of Troy upon their slates. I moved away from these upon the sharp stones... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1839 - 414 pages
...the present instance, to depend on locality. " When I commenced my station, I started from 142 BEDS. what is called the 'Beds,' and God help St. Patrick...in which the pilgrim gets as far as the innermost, resemhles precisely that in which school-bovs enter the walls of Troy upon their slates. I moved away... | |
 | 1841 - 558 pages
...existence in the mind would not only be a moral but a physical impossibility in Lough Dearg. . . . ' When I commenced my station, I started from what is...stones with which the whole island is surfaced, keeping tbe chapel, or " prison," as it is called, upon my right ; then turning, I came round again, with a... | |
 | William Carleton - Ireland - 1872 - 732 pages
...repentance could save the soul, no wretch who performed n pilgrimage here could with ft gond grace he damned. Out of hell the place is matchless, and if...within another ; and the manner in which the pilgrim geta as far as the innermost, resembles precisely that in which school-boys enter the " Walls of Troy"... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 562 pages
...existence in the mind would not only be a moral but a physical impossibility in Lough Dearg. . . . ' When I commenced my station, I started from what is...with which the whole island is surfaced, keeping the ohapel, or " prison," as it is called, upon my right ; then turning, I came, round again, with a circumbendibus,... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...its existence in the mind would not only be amoral but a physical impossibility in Lough Dearg. .... When I commenced my station, I started from what is...the walls of Troy upon their slates. I moved away i'riiiii these upon the sharp stones with which the whole island is surfaced, keeping the chapel, or... | |
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