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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. "
Evelyn Manwaring - Page 21
by Greville John Chester - 1883
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Memoirs of Joseph Holt: General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, Volume 1

Joseph Holt - 1838 - 432 pages
...declares that — " There are statues gracing this noble place in, Sweet heathen gods and nymphs so fair. Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air." 1794. road leading from Dublin to Roundwood ; and the manner in which I executed the work pleased him...
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Memoirs of Joseph Holt: General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, Volume 1

Joseph Holt - 1838 - 446 pages
...declares that — " There are statues gracing this noble place in, Sweet heathen gods and nymphs so fair. Bold Neptune, Plutarch, and Nicodemus, All standing naked in the open air." 1794. road leading from Dublin to Round wood ; and the manner in which I executed the work pleased...
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The popular songs of Ireland, collected and ed., with intr. and notes, by T ...

Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 370 pages
...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...
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Popular Songs of Ireland

Thomas Crofton Croker - 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...
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Notes and Queries

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 :—...
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Notes and Queries

1852 - 1170 pages
...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...
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Lessons in Elocution ...

A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 260 pages
...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...
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The Antiquary, Volumes 1-2

1871 - 546 pages
...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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The Antiquarian, Volume 1

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,...
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Rambles roundabout and poems, ed. by E. Dicey

George James De Wilde - 1872 - 292 pages
...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 at...
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