 ... 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.  Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls - Страница 3написао/ла Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 312 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Lisa Hopkins, Matthew Steggle - 2006 - 166 страница
...(Spenser, 1633, 35). Spenser also objects to the Irish habit of wearing a mantle on the grounds that 'it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and apt cloak for a thief . . . And surely for a bad housewife it is no less convenient, for some of them... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 страница
...to the collective wisdom that branded Irish arms. " The Irish mantle should be prohibited, because it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a...thief. First, the outlaw being, for his many crimes and villainies, banished from the towns and houses of honest men, and wandering in waste places far from... | |
 | Sir James Ware - 1809 - 538 страница
...the commoditie doth not countervaile the discommoditie ; for the inconveniencies which thereby doe arise, are much more many; for it is a \ fit house...for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a tbiefe. First the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
 | 1921 - 762 страница
...disguises which allowed undesirables to wander about at will undetected. Spenser says of the mantle that it is "a fit house for an outlaw, .a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief;" and further he says, referring to the Irish vagabond, that "he can in his mantle pass through any town... | |
 | 1921 - 386 страница
...disguises which allowed undesirables to wander about at will undetected. Spenser says of the mantle that it is "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief;" and further he says, referring to the Irish vagabond, that "he can in his mantle pass through any town... | |
 | 1925 - 656 страница
...for disorders of every kind. The chief article of their attire was a mantle or plaid, which served as a " fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The feuds of different septs rendered the country a constant scene of civil war, and gave excuse for... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1938 - 656 страница
...for disorders of every kind. The chief article of their attire was a mantle or plaid, which served as a " fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief8." The feuds of different septs rendered the country a constant scene of civil war, and gave... | |
 | 1852 - 636 страница
...in dyeing their habits. Spenser greatly censured the ancient Irish dress. He considered the cloak " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." Ho also strongly objects to tho custom of women wearing mantles, and mentions several... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1835 - 440 страница
...coats of olden fame, which an English writer formerly designated as " a fit house for an outlaw — в meet bed for a rebel — and an apt cloak for a thief." He had a long pole in his harjd, and seemed tobe engaged in the business of herding a number of cattle... | |
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