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Article THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN. ← Page 2 of 17 →
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
For he ' s a bonny Highland lad , The brightest that e ' er led a band ; As for me , I ' 11 double the hand To fight for lovely Charlie . "
His decision was now fixed . The information he looked for was obtained . Without waiting , therefore , for the permission of his abbot , he effected his departure on the ensuing night ; add , having fallen in with some volunteers in the course of his journey , under the conduct of a recruiting Serjeant , he arrived with a light step and an ardent ambition at the head quarters of the army . Here , again , many things occurred to ruffle the evenness of his early hopes .
The bickerings oi partisans and the jealousies of intriguers were ill suited to the even-mindedness of his straight-forward views , and must of themselves have been sufficient to fill an honest aspirant with disgust ; but the motives to alienation were multiplied tenfold , when those squabbles assumed the character of national antipathies , and went additionally to weaken their common cause ! These dissentions , we know from history , originated altogether on the
part of the Scotch , who , looking with distrust on the presence of so many Irishmen , ivhose exertions they apprehended might eclipse their own in their patron ' s esteem , omitted no opportunity to evince their misgivings , and represent the ardour of their auxiliaries as the mere effervescence of adventure . Many , disheartened by these ungenerous imputations , threw up their posts , and retraced their steps homewards . O'Sullivan himself was infected
with this despondency , and was actually selected to head one of the returning expeditions : but when the hour arrived at which he was to bid adieu , he was spell-bound to the spot , and unable to stir one movement . It happened that in his intercourse with the northern lairds , the young Irish enthusiast got enamoured of the charms of one of the native beauties . Various were the efforts which he hourly enforced to extricate himself from the influence of this young lady ' s fascinations ; not that he saw in her any
thing to detract from the lustre of his fullest admiration—she was all grace , all elegance , all sterling purity—his only hesitation arose from the insult offered Ms country by the cold-blooded calculators of her country ; and however trivial this may appear to an ordinary ebserver , the injustice of their conduct , coupled , perhaps , with some inner whisperings , that he should find a substitute amongst the vallies of his beloved Erin for the coy mountain lassie he was about to leave behind , operated , as a sedative , is some
measure , to his regret , and almost reconciled him to separation . But then again , the witchery of first-love , and the confiding fondness of the fair one for whom this passion was entertained , interposed their advocacy in behalf of constancy , and pleaded for thc union of souls so congenial . The Chevalier himself , to ensure thc services of so gallant a soldier as O'Sullivan , not less than to forward an attachment which lie knew to have been reciprocal , undertook the adjustment of those conflicting scruples ; and , with the assurance of protection and ample provision in his future
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Thurlogh, The Milesian.
For he ' s a bonny Highland lad , The brightest that e ' er led a band ; As for me , I ' 11 double the hand To fight for lovely Charlie . "
His decision was now fixed . The information he looked for was obtained . Without waiting , therefore , for the permission of his abbot , he effected his departure on the ensuing night ; add , having fallen in with some volunteers in the course of his journey , under the conduct of a recruiting Serjeant , he arrived with a light step and an ardent ambition at the head quarters of the army . Here , again , many things occurred to ruffle the evenness of his early hopes .
The bickerings oi partisans and the jealousies of intriguers were ill suited to the even-mindedness of his straight-forward views , and must of themselves have been sufficient to fill an honest aspirant with disgust ; but the motives to alienation were multiplied tenfold , when those squabbles assumed the character of national antipathies , and went additionally to weaken their common cause ! These dissentions , we know from history , originated altogether on the
part of the Scotch , who , looking with distrust on the presence of so many Irishmen , ivhose exertions they apprehended might eclipse their own in their patron ' s esteem , omitted no opportunity to evince their misgivings , and represent the ardour of their auxiliaries as the mere effervescence of adventure . Many , disheartened by these ungenerous imputations , threw up their posts , and retraced their steps homewards . O'Sullivan himself was infected
with this despondency , and was actually selected to head one of the returning expeditions : but when the hour arrived at which he was to bid adieu , he was spell-bound to the spot , and unable to stir one movement . It happened that in his intercourse with the northern lairds , the young Irish enthusiast got enamoured of the charms of one of the native beauties . Various were the efforts which he hourly enforced to extricate himself from the influence of this young lady ' s fascinations ; not that he saw in her any
thing to detract from the lustre of his fullest admiration—she was all grace , all elegance , all sterling purity—his only hesitation arose from the insult offered Ms country by the cold-blooded calculators of her country ; and however trivial this may appear to an ordinary ebserver , the injustice of their conduct , coupled , perhaps , with some inner whisperings , that he should find a substitute amongst the vallies of his beloved Erin for the coy mountain lassie he was about to leave behind , operated , as a sedative , is some
measure , to his regret , and almost reconciled him to separation . But then again , the witchery of first-love , and the confiding fondness of the fair one for whom this passion was entertained , interposed their advocacy in behalf of constancy , and pleaded for thc union of souls so congenial . The Chevalier himself , to ensure thc services of so gallant a soldier as O'Sullivan , not less than to forward an attachment which lie knew to have been reciprocal , undertook the adjustment of those conflicting scruples ; and , with the assurance of protection and ample provision in his future