Castle Rackrent: And Irish BullsBaldwin and Cradock, 1832 - 312 страница |
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... amongst us before I knew for the life of me where- abouts I was , in a gig or some of them things , with another spark along with him , and led horses , and servants , and dogs , and scarce a place to put any Christian of them into ...
... amongst us before I knew for the life of me where- abouts I was , in a gig or some of them things , with another spark along with him , and led horses , and servants , and dogs , and scarce a place to put any Christian of them into ...
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... amongst us , God bless him ! He valued a guinea as little as any man : money to him was no more than dirt , and his gentle- man and groom , and all belonging to him , the same ; but the sporting season over , he grew tired of the place ...
... amongst us , God bless him ! He valued a guinea as little as any man : money to him was no more than dirt , and his gentle- man and groom , and all belonging to him , the same ; but the sporting season over , he grew tired of the place ...
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... and as to the ladies , they must settle it amongst them who was to be his second , and his third , and his fourth , whilst his first was still alive , to his morti- fication and theirs . Upon this , as upon all CASTLE RACKRENT . 27.
... and as to the ladies , they must settle it amongst them who was to be his second , and his third , and his fourth , whilst his first was still alive , to his morti- fication and theirs . Upon this , as upon all CASTLE RACKRENT . 27.
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... amongst his particular friends , who would give any price for them for his sake ; but no ready money was required by the new heir , who wished not to displease any of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood just upon his coming to settle amongst ...
... amongst his particular friends , who would give any price for them for his sake ; but no ready money was required by the new heir , who wished not to displease any of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood just upon his coming to settle amongst ...
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... amongst us ; and if it had not been all along with her , his honour , sir Kit , would have been now alive in all appearance . Her diamond cross was , they say , at the bottom of it all ; and it was a shame for her , being his wife , not ...
... amongst us ; and if it had not been all along with her , his honour , sir Kit , would have been now alive in all appearance . Her diamond cross was , they say , at the bottom of it all ; and it was a shame for her , being his wife , not ...
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absurdity amongst Arrah asked Attic dialect better brogue brother called Castle Rackrent catachresis compliments cried dear dialect door Dublin enallage England English Englishman étoit eyes fair fermier général fortune funeral gentleman give guineas hand head hear heard heart hero Hibernian homme horse hundred guineas Hyder Ali hysteron proteron ignorant Ireland Irish blunders Irish bull Irishman Jason jaunting car Judy kilt knew lady Rackrent land landlord laugh little Dominick live looked lord master means metonomy mind miss Sharperson morning never night observed opinion Owen ap Jones person Phelim O'Mooney plockit poor practical bull Queasy recollect rent ridicule says Scotch Scotchman semichorus Sèvre Sèvre china shister sir Condy sir John Bull sir Murtagh speak speech spirits sure talking tell tenants Thady thing thought told vulgar whilst whiskey woman word
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Страница 3 - When it raineth, it is his pent-house ; when it bloweth, it is his tent ; when it freezeth it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose ; in winter he can wrap it close ; at all times he can use it ; never heavy, never cumbersome.
Страница 120 - Deal on, deal on, my merry men all, Deal on your cake and your wine: For whatever is dealt at her funeral to-day, Shall be dealt to-morrow at mine.
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Страница 5 - He had his house, from one year's end to another, as full of company as ever it could hold, and fuller; for rather than be left out of the parties at Castle Rackrent, many gentlemen, and those men of the first consequence...
Страница viii - Two circumstances, in particular, recalled my recollection of the mislaid manuscript. The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbors of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union, than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed up.
Страница 6 - Then he fell to singing the favourite song he learned from his father — for the last time, poor gentleman — he sung it that night as loud and as hearty as ever with a chorus : " He that goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, falls as the leaves do, and dies in October ; But he that goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
Страница 7 - It's a long time ago, there's no saying how it was, but this for certain, the new man did not take at all after the old gentleman; the cellars were never filled after his death, and no open house, or any thing as it used to be; the tenants even were sent away without their whiskey.
Страница 3 - ... in waste places, far from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it covereth himself from the wrath of Heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men.
Страница 7 - A rescue was apprehended from the mob ; but the heir, who attended the funeral, was against that, for fear of consequences, seeing that those villains who came to serve acted under the disguise of the law : so, to be sure, the law must take its course, and little gain had the creditors for their pains. First and foremost, they had the curses of the country : and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of the debts, in...