The legends of Saint Patrick

Aubrey De Vere

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RAWDON COLLEGE LIBRARY. the of the late Rev. C. BAILHACHE.)(From Library A. A. B. AND A. W.E., ROOKE, 1879.FEBRUARY, No.Shelf LEGENDS OF SAINT PATRICK the same Author.By I. THE INFANT andBRIDAL, other Poems. (Macmillan. ) MAY Edition.II. CAROLS. 2nd (Richardson.) III. Miscellaneous andPOEMS, Sacred. and Lambert )(Burns LEGENDSTHE OF SAINT PATRICK BY VEREAUBREY DE LONDON HENRY S. KING & CORNHILLCo., 65 Dublin : & GILLMcGLA,SHAN 1872 LONDON : PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET All rights reserved TO THE MEMORY of WORDSWORTH 513451 PREFACE. Ireland the traveller hearsIN most of quaintparts stories about Saint and sometimesPatrick, perhaps the island for thethat the Saint visitedimagines of and to mirth inbenefit promotewitty guides, wet weather. He would that,hardly suspect the of thesefourteen centuries, subjectduring stories has been at countless ashearths,regarded, benefactor thatthe man and thegreatest greatest ever trod the Irish and that there remains soil,' him a vast of serious,respecting cycle legends, and It could not have beenprofound.pathetic, otherwise. Ireland was a land of legends many before Saint Patrick visited it. existedages JlThere in all of it of whose itBard"7parts Colleges duty to in the of clanwas everypreserve song history and House. Such a could not haveruling people viii Preface. the heroic man who had led them forth inforgotten their Exodus from the of darkness.

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• Patrick

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 9
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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RAWDON COLLEGE LIBRARY.
the of the late Rev. C. BAILHACHE.)(From Library
A. A. B. AND A. W.E., ROOKE,
1879.FEBRUARY,
No.ShelfLEGENDS OF SAINT PATRICKthe same Author.By
I. THE INFANT andBRIDAL,
other Poems. (Macmillan. )
MAY Edition.II. CAROLS. 2nd
(Richardson.)
III. Miscellaneous andPOEMS,
Sacred. and Lambert )(BurnsLEGENDSTHE
OF
SAINT PATRICK
BY
VEREAUBREY DE
LONDON
HENRY S. KING & CORNHILLCo., 65
Dublin : & GILLMcGLA,SHAN
1872LONDON : PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
All rights reserved