The Irish Literary Inquirer, Utgave 1

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John Power
1865
"Notes on authors, books and printing in Ireland, biographical and bibliographical.
 

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Side 5 - ... there is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish ; or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof although it be against themselves; so as they may have the protection and benefit of the law, when upon just cause they do desire it.
Side 7 - Epistle wrytten by John Scory the late bishope of Chichester unto all the faythfull that be in pryson in Englande, or in any other treble for the defence of Goddes truthe: wherein he dothe, as well by the promises of mercy as also by...
Side 27 - And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Side 22 - Vallancey observes, that considering his ignorance of that language, he did much. " His works are the outlines and materials of a great plan, which he enjoyed neither life nor abilities to finish ; and it is much to be lamented that he had not the good fortune to meet with so experienced and intelligent an amanuensis as Mac Terbiss sooner.
Side 18 - Mr. George Grierson, a printer in Dublin, for whom Lord Carteret, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, obtained a patent appointing him printer to the King, in which, to distinguish and reward the merit of his wife, her life was inserted. She died in 1733, at the premature age of twenty-seven, admired and respected as an excellent scholar in Greek and Roman literature, in history, theology, philosophy, and mathematics.
Side 20 - Tis the bells of Shandon, ^ That sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee.
Side 24 - It will occupy four or five volumes, and is to be profusely and largely illustrated from original designs. The aim of the publishers and authors is to supply a want which has long been felt by the reading public, and is well understood by booksellers. Admirable histories of America, of the United States, of different portions of both, and of many distinguished men whose lives at one time or another have helped to make those histories, have been written, and are familiar to scholars. Some of...
Side 9 - Cum privi/egio ad imprimendnm solmn, anno Domini MDLI." Powell continued to exercise the printing business in Dublin for fifteen years or more, during which time he removed from the river side to a more southern residence in St. Nicholas Street.
Side 20 - Passage told a Gentleman of our Society almost Forty years since by Mr Dryden, who went with Mr Waller in Company to make a Visit to Mr Milton and desire his Leave for putting his Paradise Lost into Rhime for the Stage. Well, Mr Dryden, says Milton, it seems you have a mind to Tagg my Points, and you have my Leave to Tagg 'em, but some of 'em are so Awkward and Old Fashion'd that I think you had as good leave 'em as you found 'em.
Side 6 - ABHBA. [Dublin received the art of printing in 1551. Mr. Ames observes that Ireland was one of the last European states into which the art of printing was introduced ; the earliest book at present known being an edition of The Sake of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Churche, folio. It is a verbal reprint of the Common Prayer of Edward VI. of 1549, and bears for Colophon

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