Sketches of Irish character1829 |
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afore agin agra Andy ANNA MARIA HALL Anty aunt ax y'er Bannow beautiful blessing body Brian cabin Cassidy child clane colleen Connor Corish Corry cottage cousin cratur dacent darlint dear depinded Dora eyes fairy Father Mike Frank Gertrude girl hand happy Harry Harry Connor head heart Herriott husband Irish James Jim Holloway jist Kelly knew lady letther Lilly Lilly's look Lucy married Martin Mary master Mick Mick Leahy Miss Letty Miss Raymond morning mother Nelly never Newfoundland dog night niver noggins nothin ould Paddy parish passed pathern Peggy plase poor Priest rason replied Scullabogue smiling sorrow spake sure sweet tell ye there's thim thin thing thought Tim Jarvis tould turned Waddy wanted Wexford whin whisky wife woman word y'er honor ye'd ye'll ye'r ye've young
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71. oldal - I have been young, and now am old : and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.
89. oldal - I don't hit the nail on the head quick enough ; and she takes a dale more trouble than she need about many a thing." ' " I do not think I ever saw Ellen's wheel without flax before, Shane?
115. oldal - mid sunbeams. Now groping trouts in lucid streams, Now spinning like a mill-wheel round, Now hunting echo's empty sound, Now climbing up some old tall tree — For climbing sake. 'Tis sweet to thee To sit where birds can sit alone, Or share with thee thy venturous throne.
89. oldal - ... sight out o' mind — the never a word she tould him about it, and the babby has got it nataral, and the woman's in heart trouble (to say nothing o' myself); — and it the first, and all.
38. oldal - Here are we met, three merry boys, Three merry boys I trow are we ; And mony a night we've merry been, And mony mae we hope to be ! We are na fou, &c. It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin...
87. oldal - Irish — men, women, and children — least understand ; and the calmness, or rather indifference, with which they submit to dependence, bitter and miserable as it is, must be a source of deep regret to all who " love the land," or who feel anxious to uphold the dignity of human kind.
90. oldal - Hill. I passed it to-day, and it looked so cheerful ; and when you get there, you must take Ellen's advice, and depend solely on yourself." " Och, Ma'am dear, don't mintion it — sure it's that makes me so down in the mouth, this very minit. Sure I saw that born blackguard, Jack Waddy, and he comes in here, quite innocent like — ' Shane, you've an eye to 'Squire's new lodge,
88. oldal - ... hot, and a beautiful summer, sure, — -the Lord be praised !" " Thank you, Shane. I thought you were going to cut the hayfield to-day ; if a heavy shower comes it will be spoiled ; it has been fit for the scythe these two days.
112. oldal - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
63. oldal - The imprison'd storms through brazen nostrils roar, Fan the white flame, and fuse the sparkling ore. Here high in air the rising stream he pours To clay-built cisterns, or to lead-lined towers ; Fresh through a thousand pipes the wave distils, And thirsty cities drink the exuberant rills.