The Barouche Driver and His Wife: A Tale for Haut Ton, Contaning a Curious Biography of Living CharactersJ.F. Hughes, 1807 |
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... Hope , that they could not be witnesses , since they were sure either to gain or lose by the Trial . The Senses declared , for themselves , that they were not proper to speak to it , since they were but subordinate to the Will 2.
... Hope , that they could not be witnesses , since they were sure either to gain or lose by the Trial . The Senses declared , for themselves , that they were not proper to speak to it , since they were but subordinate to the Will 2.
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... ascribed to Mr. Fox , when speaking of his Lordship : " He said , he was the most accom- plished wit he had ever known ; and in domestic life , in the circle of his " friends and followers collected round his table , he 21.
... ascribed to Mr. Fox , when speaking of his Lordship : " He said , he was the most accom- plished wit he had ever known ; and in domestic life , in the circle of his " friends and followers collected round his table , he 21.
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... celebrated Lady ; which may not be unacceptable to the reader - if an inquisitive reader . Of her origin it would be difficult to speak positively - but it is believed that she was edu- templations on the virtues of high de- scent . She ...
... celebrated Lady ; which may not be unacceptable to the reader - if an inquisitive reader . Of her origin it would be difficult to speak positively - but it is believed that she was edu- templations on the virtues of high de- scent . She ...
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... speak by rule - to say exactly , and to do exactly , what was strictly tonish - to copy all the silly actions , and echo all the silly witticisms of any fashionable fool - and , above all , never to offend against deco- rum by ...
... speak by rule - to say exactly , and to do exactly , what was strictly tonish - to copy all the silly actions , and echo all the silly witticisms of any fashionable fool - and , above all , never to offend against deco- rum by ...
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... speaking in tones scarcely articulate . " He was a villain , father ! " The father's agitation became excess- ive , and he burst through the croud that had been collected by this curious dialogue , to seek support against an opposite ...
... speaking in tones scarcely articulate . " He was a villain , father ! " The father's agitation became excess- ive , and he burst through the croud that had been collected by this curious dialogue , to seek support against an opposite ...
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Page 4 - 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.
Page 9 - 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.
Page 1 - HAVING, out of friendship for the family, upon whose estate, praised be Heaven ! I and mine have lived rent-free time out of mind, voluntarily undertaken to publish the MEMOIRS OF THE RACKRENT FAMILY, I think it my duty to say a few words, in the first place, concerning myself. My real name is Thady Quirk, though in the family I have always been known by no other than
Page 14 - She had a charity school for poor children, where they were taught to read and write gratis, and where they were kept well to spinning gratis for my lady in return ; for she had always heaps of duty yarn from the tenants, and got all her household linen out of the estate from first to last ; for after the spinning, the weavers on the estate took it in hand for nothing, because of the looms my lady's interest could get from the Linen Board to distribute gratis.
Page 182 - All the features in the foregoing sketch were taken from the life, and they are characteristic of that mixture of quickness, simplicity, cunning, carelessness, dissipation, disinterestedness, shrewdness, and blunder, which in different forms, and with various success, has been brought upon the stage, or delineated in novels.
Page xviii - The body of the deceased, dressed in grave clothes, and ornamented with flowers, was placed on a bier, or some elevated spot. The relations and keepers (singing mourners) ranged themselves in two divisions, one at the head, and the other at the feet of the corpse. The bards and croteries had before prepared the funeral Caoinan.
Page 3 - It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief.
Page 19 - Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay. He was a very learned man in the law, and had the character of it; but how it was I can't tell, these suits that he carried cost him a power of money: in the end he sold some hundreds a year of the family estate; but he was a very learned man in the law, and I know nothing of the matter, except having a great regard for the family...
Page 184 - In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious.
Page 17 - ... and replevying and replevying, and he made a good living of trespassing cattle; there was always some tenant's pig, or horse, or cow, or calf, or goose trespassing, which was so great a gain to Sir Murtagh that he did not like to hear me talk of repairing fences. Then his heriots and...