Irish Literature, Volume 8Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche J. D. Morris, 1904 - Irish literature |
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Page 2860
... passed the night at Carrigaholt . We can't sleep for the barkin ' of thim , " replied the witness . Lastly , the third commissioner asked if flying fish abounded in the river . The old man's marvelous imagination and rapid invention ...
... passed the night at Carrigaholt . We can't sleep for the barkin ' of thim , " replied the witness . Lastly , the third commissioner asked if flying fish abounded in the river . The old man's marvelous imagination and rapid invention ...
Page 2867
... passed remarks on every dish with which he supplied his Excellency . Handing him a dish of peas , he said , " Pays , yer Excellency , " adding in a whisper , " an ' if I was you , the divil a wan iv thim I'd touch , for they ' re as ...
... passed remarks on every dish with which he supplied his Excellency . Handing him a dish of peas , he said , " Pays , yer Excellency , " adding in a whisper , " an ' if I was you , the divil a wan iv thim I'd touch , for they ' re as ...
Page 2884
... passed over to Ireland , where , at a beautiful place called Cluain - Coner , granted him by the king , he built a large monastery , in which he died many years afterwards . Independently of the preceding considerations — which ...
... passed over to Ireland , where , at a beautiful place called Cluain - Coner , granted him by the king , he built a large monastery , in which he died many years afterwards . Independently of the preceding considerations — which ...
Page 2891
... passed , how pure was the climate that it cleared ; how bright in the brow of the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us ! In the production of Washington it does really appear as if na- ture were endeavoring to improve upon ...
... passed , how pure was the climate that it cleared ; how bright in the brow of the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us ! In the production of Washington it does really appear as if na- ture were endeavoring to improve upon ...
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... passed his grand climacteric , to a handsome young woman of good character and easy circumstances . But this is not all , the pride of the negotiation equals its dishonesty , for , though I am be- set and assailed in private , and ...
... passed his grand climacteric , to a handsome young woman of good character and easy circumstances . But this is not all , the pride of the negotiation equals its dishonesty , for , though I am be- set and assailed in private , and ...
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Page 3221 - Poor youth ! said my uncle Toby ; he has been bred up from an infant in the army, and the name of a soldier, Trim, sounded in his ears like the name of a friend : I wish I had him here. I never in the longest march, said the Corporal, had so great a mind to my dinner, as I had to cry with him for company. What could be the matter with me, an...
Page 3014 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 3223 - Trim, said my uncle Toby, — for God only knows who is a hypocrite, and who is not : — At the great and general review of us all, Corporal, at the day of judgment, (and not till then) — it will be seen who have done their duties in this world, — and who have not ; and we shall be advanced, Trim, accordingly. — 1 hope we shall, said Trim. It is in the scripture, said my uncle Toby; and I will show it thee to-morrow.
Page 3106 - I take to be a prudent old fellow, who has got money to lend. I am blockhead enough to give fifty per cent, sooner than not have it ! and you, I presume, are rogue enough to take a hundred if you can get it. Now, sir, you see we are acquainted at once, and may proceed to business without further ceremony.
Page 3014 - Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 3015 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them, Volleyed and thundered ; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell...
Page 3220 - It was not till my uncle Toby had knocked the ashes out of his third pipe that corporal Trim returned from the inn, and gave him the following account : —
Page 3226 - The sun looked bright the morning after to every eye in the village but Le Fevre's and his afflicted son's ; the hand of death pressed heavy upon his eyelids, and hardly could the wheel at the cistern turn round its circle, when my uncle Toby, who had rose up an hour before his wonted time, entered the Lieutenant's room, and without preface or apology sat himself down...
Page 3071 - Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade : " ' Whose eloquence — brightening whatever it tried, Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, — Was as rapid, as deep, and as brilliant a tide, As ever bore Freedom aloft on its wave...
Page 3080 - In my way hither, Mrs. Malaprop, I observed your niece's maid coming forth from a circulating library! — She had a book in each hand — they were half-bound volumes, with marble covers! — from that moment I guessed how full of duty I should see her mistress ! Mrs.