Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1818 |
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... , where , guilty or innocent , they were perhaps destined to wear out their lives in misery , vice , and incarceration , under a form of law , known only in " Ireland , called a Rule of Bail . Under 4 FLORENCE MACARTHY .
... , where , guilty or innocent , they were perhaps destined to wear out their lives in misery , vice , and incarceration , under a form of law , known only in " Ireland , called a Rule of Bail . Under 4 FLORENCE MACARTHY .
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... live with the great , to be noticed by the great , to influence and render herself necessary to the great , was the ambition and ob- ject of Miss Crawley's existence . For this purpose she took the only paths open to her , pretension ...
... live with the great , to be noticed by the great , to influence and render herself necessary to the great , was the ambition and ob- ject of Miss Crawley's existence . For this purpose she took the only paths open to her , pretension ...
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... tis the best hit that ever was made , and has set the judge wild , they say . " " No , I have not , Counsellor Mulli- gan , nor doesn't care if I never see a scrap of his poethry again while I live ; and FLORENCE MACARTHY , 91.
... tis the best hit that ever was made , and has set the judge wild , they say . " " No , I have not , Counsellor Mulli- gan , nor doesn't care if I never see a scrap of his poethry again while I live ; and FLORENCE MACARTHY , 91.
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... live ; and wishes he would lave off with his hits . " " Me ! " said Conway , tossing off a glass of liquor ( for the dessert was now on the table . ) " Upon my honor , I didn't write that lampoon , which was circulated at Cork , if you ...
... live ; and wishes he would lave off with his hits . " " Me ! " said Conway , tossing off a glass of liquor ( for the dessert was now on the table . ) " Upon my honor , I didn't write that lampoon , which was circulated at Cork , if you ...
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... lives giving the Whiggish toast , without an idea attached to it , save the subjection of the catholic po- pulation , an unequal distribution . of rights , and the supremacy of a narrow , bigotted FLORENCE MACARTHY . 109.
... lives giving the Whiggish toast , without an idea attached to it , save the subjection of the catholic po- pulation , an unequal distribution . of rights , and the supremacy of a narrow , bigotted FLORENCE MACARTHY . 109.
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aid-de-camp amused asked Baron Boulter barouche barrister bon-ton borough brother called carriage character circle Clotworthy Commissioners Commodore Conway Crawley Conway Townsend Counsellor country gentlemen Court Fitzadelm Craw Crawley family Crawley's Daly Darby Crawley daughter dead silence dear derick dinner ditto Dublin Dunore Castle Dunore's English exclaimed eyes father favour friends ganius gentlemen give Glannacrime guest hand Heneage high sheriff humour influence interrupted Ireland Irish Irish government Judge Kate Lady Dunore Lady Emily Lady Georgina ladyship laughed legion letter look Lord Adelm Lord Fre Lord Frederick Lord Ros Lord Rosbrin Marchioness of Dunore ment Miss Crawley mother nate ness never New-Town Mount Crawley nore O'Leary observed old Crawley Padreen Paradise Lost party person plaze your honor poethry political Pottinger racter rank Serjeant sinecure smile spirit stood stranger sub-sheriff talent thing tictacs tion took turn vulgar wine young
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Página 151 - The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood ; Stop up...
Página 104 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 120 - And sing of knights and ladies gentle deeds ; Whose praises having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broade emongst her learned throng : Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
Página 95 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed...
Página 57 - The dark bile, which from childhood sallowed his cheek, dimm'd his eye, and tinged the spirits of youth with the causticity of age, continued, through adolescence and manhood, to communicate its bitterness to all his views; turning his words to sarcasm, his ink to gall, and his pen to a stiletto; and combining with an education, whose object was pretension, and whose principle was arrogance, it made him at once a thing fearful and pitiable, at war with its species and itself, ready to crush on the...
Página 57 - ... to scorn ; for opinion has no punishment for the base. If ever there was a man formed alike by nature and education to betray the land that gave him birth, and to act openly as the pander of political corruption, or secretly as the agent of defamation, who would stoop to seek his fortune by effecting the fall of a frail woman, or would strive to advance it by stabbing the character of an honest one, who would crush aspiring merit behind the ambuscade of anonymous security, while he came forward...
Página 57 - ... overweening ambition to pursue its object by ways, dark and hidden, safe from the penalty of crime, and exposed only to the obloquy which he laughed to scorn ; for opinion has. no punishment for the base. If ever there was a man formed alike by nature and education to betray the land that gave him birth, and to act openly as the pander of political corruption, or secretly as the agent of defamation, who would stoop to seek his fortune by effecting the fall of a frail woman, or would strive to...
Página 80 - ... Presbyterians for those of the established faith. With your missions and missionaries, conversions and perversions, have you left me a tinpenny in my pocket to give to my own poor in New-Town Mount Crawley? And pray, what's gone of my one pound note that went to make Christians of the black negroes ? Never saw a single sowl of them set foot in a church yet, barring Mrs. Casey's little black boy, that carries her prayer-book to early service. And I'd trouble you for my eleven and fourpence halfpenny,...
Página 282 - Chambers, ii, p. 162. He quotes Sharp, p. 172; the latter, citing a contemporary writer, shows that the Dublin procession, like those of Coventry and Shrewsbury, lasted to a recent date. " The Fringes was a procession of the trades and corporations, performed in Ireland on Corpus Christi day, even within the author's recollection. King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, with Vulcan, Venus, and Cupid were leading persons on this occasion.