Castle Rackrent: And Irish BullsBaldwin and Cradock, 1832 - 312 страница |
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... brother , a young dashing officer , who came 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 ...
... brother , a young dashing officer , who came 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 ...
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... brother , and claimed his promises , whilst another did the same . ' I don't men- tion names . Sir Kit , in his defence , said he would meet any man who dared to question his conduct , and as to the ladies , they must settle it amongst ...
... brother , and claimed his promises , whilst another did the same . ' I don't men- tion names . Sir Kit , in his defence , said he would meet any man who dared to question his conduct , and as to the ladies , they must settle it amongst ...
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... brother ; the next day he called out the second , who had a wooden leg ; and their place of meeting by appointment being in a new ploughed field , the wooden - leg man stuck fast in it . Sir Kit , seeing his situation , with great ...
... brother ; the next day he called out the second , who had a wooden leg ; and their place of meeting by appointment being in a new ploughed field , the wooden - leg man stuck fast in it . Sir Kit , seeing his situation , with great ...
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... brother brought him into the house to dinner : the servant who waited that day behind my master's chair was the first who knew it , as he says ; though it's hard to believe him , for he did not tell till a great while afterwards ; but ...
... brother brought him into the house to dinner : the servant who waited that day behind my master's chair was the first who knew it , as he says ; though it's hard to believe him , for he did not tell till a great while afterwards ; but ...
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... brother ; let alone one who had voted against him at the last election , as sir Condy had done . So sir Condy was fain to take the purchase - money of the lodge from my son Jason to settle matters ; and sure enough it was a good bargain ...
... brother ; let alone one who had voted against him at the last election , as sir Condy had done . So sir Condy was fain to take the purchase - money of the lodge from my son Jason to settle matters ; and sure enough it was a good bargain ...
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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.
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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...