Castle Rackrent: And Irish BullsBaldwin and Cradock, 1832 - 312 страница |
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... blunders is the following speech , which we actually heard not long ago from an Irishman : - " Please your worship , he sent me to the devil , and I came straight to your honour . " We thought this an original Irish blunder , till we ...
... blunders is the following speech , which we actually heard not long ago from an Irishman : - " Please your worship , he sent me to the devil , and I came straight to your honour . " We thought this an original Irish blunder , till we ...
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... blunder of the first magnitude . Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words I , or me ; but the able ...
... blunder of the first magnitude . Those who have never been initiated into the mysteries of metaphysics may have the presumptuous ignorance to fancy that they understand what is meant by the common words I , or me ; but the able ...
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... blunder in Spain , in the time of Cervantes : - " Pray tell me , squire , " says the duchess , in Don Quixote , " is not your master the person whose history is printed under the name of the sage Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha , who ...
... blunder in Spain , in the time of Cervantes : - " Pray tell me , squire , " says the duchess , in Don Quixote , " is not your master the person whose history is printed under the name of the sage Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha , who ...
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... blunders ; though without pretending , like some literary blood- hounds , to follow up a plagiarism , where common sagacity is at a fault . " De moi je commence à douter tout de bon . Pourtant quand je me tâte , et quand je me rapelle ...
... blunders ; though without pretending , like some literary blood- hounds , to follow up a plagiarism , where common sagacity is at a fault . " De moi je commence à douter tout de bon . Pourtant quand je me tâte , et quand je me rapelle ...
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... blunders , pretending to be native , original Irish bulls ; and we shall now with pleasure proceed to examine those which have better titles to notice . Even nonsense ceases to be wor- thy of attention and public favour , unless it be ...
... blunders , pretending to be native , original Irish bulls ; and we shall now with pleasure proceed to examine those which have better titles to notice . Even nonsense ceases to be wor- thy of attention and public favour , unless it be ...
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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.
Страница 240 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
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...