NASEBY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 71, 5 September 1874, Page 8

NASEBY.

A coBBEsroNDEiiT sends us the following resume of the lecture on the Poets of Ireland, delivered in aid of the Catholic School Fund :— The anniversary ball of the H.A.C.B. Society came off according to announcement on the 21st July, and was a brilliant success. It wu°s attended by visitors from St. Jkthans and other parts of the country. We have also had a lecture given on the 22nd August, by Mr B Gordon, beo. Roman Catholic School Committee, for the benefit of the school. The subject chosen was the " Poets of Ireland "— Goldsmith, Moore and the Hon Thomas Darcy AlcGee. His first was Goldsmith J™,; h f e 8m " 11 vlllh S« of Pall « s . the County of Longford, his going to school to I homos Bryne, so literally portrayed in the '< VUlngf bchoolmaster, and Ins. subsequent career at the seminaries of Athlone intt g tf r° r J hst ? wl \ L ! s «»try into Trinity College, Dublin, his depaiS£ ,f rt f and i h fiS? Utinent of Europeto complete his medical studies under the famed Albinuss of Leyden; his susequent ™«derings'through _ Europe making his flute his forager, so graphically described by h.mseH in the .Traveller," one of the finest poems & the thi « "n«~?,Wii . w Xt re f errod t0 llis " Vicar of WakefitOd " and r, 6 , wf ? (once known as the Village of Lissoy in the ™ R Tf ° • ?T IK Some passages in the poem cannot be surpassed , its miugled shades off joy, sadness, pathos, and sublimity, form Idmtl J%n ne 1 plCtUre V, n E^ lißh liferatllre . which will be quoted and J? If* ?• " g ? V he , EngHsh lan suage » known. He next referee > to his historical works including his "Animated Nature," and to his beautiful comedy "She Stoops to Conquer," or the "Mistakes of alight to his siciness and death, to his burial in the Temple, London far from that iand which he loved so well, far from that Moo?. ?g?? g? Tr™ £ immoi> , ta^ed in verse. Next in rotation came Jhead^S t ri° m f 1 , 116 P ° et ° f «">«-«" Ivies' favourite, the adnnred at the table of the great patrons of art and literature to™7 S J' Pa !\ exceUenee > " ho composed the song, wrote the music to su t , and could smg and play it into tbo bargain. Go to any capital in Sicily in the south, from Dublin in Ireland in the West, to Constantinople in Turkey ,n the East, and you will hear Moore's songs sung i?rih«7i • D f- I ."' ge - M«M «° reS 6ar ' y talent for rh y min S ™ 8 w*t described, his likeness to Pope in that respect. As yet a. child and all unknown to fame, •n-*™,,* * iHe lisped m uumbeis, for the numbers came, He next referred to his college life, to his translation of "Acacreon Trifor X* J U T, lie P °- em3 ' h ! 8 ° de and e P istle » his interview S Jeifory, the bcotch ren ewer ; his « Itbh Melodies " his songs in which he leaves Burns and Beranger in the shade, his "Lulla JJookh » which for panoramic verse cannot be excelled. He also referred to S political satire on the Prince Regent and his ministers, Iho "Fudge 5T5 ThT h w 7 A hance, ' "Biography of Sheridan," « Memoirs of of Lord Edward Fitzgerald," and Life of Lord Byron," and vound up ™tb a high eulogium on Moore's good Was a son a husband, a father and friend. The last; though not the' least Thomas Darcy M'Gee, born at CarlingforJ, in the County of Lou h nurtured ana reared in the romantic scenery of thTlri°h coast, his .education at Wexford, his immigration to America Ha con aeetion with the 'Boston Pilot,' his return to his native land to edit the Freeman's Journal,' and to assist the great O'.onnell in h L agitation for Repeal; his subsequent connection" wi;h CharX Gavan Duffy, and that immortal band who wrote for the 'Nation'' his escape to America, three hundred pounds reward being offered for hisarres . How he again started as a journalist in New York and Boston, his final removal to Canada, his settlement and election to the Canadian Parliament as one of the members for Montreal. He next referred to his abilities as aa orator and statesman, to his last speech iat f Dominion, and to His untimely and tragic death. M Gee was next referred to as being more distinctively Irish arc! national in his poems than Moore. His poetry is redolent with the purest Irish fee ing, his passionate love of country and of kin, his strong religious fatth, his love of the beautiful and good.-tbese un derhe all his poems, Whether he sings of love or country, peace or war, faith or charity, friendship, or the legends of other days, his tones are still the same, as witness his « Wishing Cap," Us parting with Ins wile by the yellow flowing Foyle, or when°he sings ofb 3f as m youthful days, b« voice is like a trumpet call. But, he is gore • the noblest ' Boman of them all," the orator, the statesman, historian; and poet,— lost to friend and country ;— lost to literature and son *— far away irom that old laud that he loved so well ! ,**«"„ August 3 1st. =—-___ HIBERNrcTIS. fc M & *= Wo ™-—*hy«eally, Irieh women (says a writer) are probably the finest m the world-I mean taller, better limbed and cheatedlarger eyed, and with more luxuriant hair, and freer action than nnv nation I have observed. The Phoenician and Spanish blood JK has run hundreds of years m their veins still kindles its dark fire in their eyes, and vivacity of the northern mind and the bright color of the northern skm, these southern qualities mingle in most admirable and superb harmony The idea we form of Italian and Grecian beauty S never realized in Greece or Italy ; but we find it in Ireland, hJLntoJed and exceeded Cheeks and lips of the delicacy and bright tint of carnation, with snowy teeth and eyebrows of jet, are what «-c should look for on the palette of Apelles, could we recall the painter and manimate his far-famed models ; and these varied charms, united fall very commonly to the share of the fair Milesian. MddsSE . proverb, the ; Irish woman is as unsuspecting of an impropriety as if it we an impossible thing; and she is as fearless and joyous as "midB.npman, and sometimes as noisy. In a ball-room'she looks ill-dressed, not because her dress ™s ill put on, because she dances, not elides sits down without care, pulls her flowers to pieces, and if h« hJad & commodes her, she will give it a pull or a push. If she is offended ahe asks for an explanation. If she does not understand you, she confesses her ignorance If she wishes to see you next day she tel s you "Brylish" ""• SC l 8 " had ° f """* aad Cluldrett ««S