Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale. Taken from Facts, and from the Manners of the Irish Squires, Before the Year 1782J. Johnson, 1801 - 214 páginas |
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Página 4 - ... 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. When it raineth, it is his penthouse; when it bloweth, it is his tent; when it freezeth, it is his tabernacle.
Página 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.* Then there was a bleach-yard near us,...
Página v - We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy, from their actions or their appearance in public ; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
Página 10 - Then such a fine whillaluh! you might have heard it to the farthest end of the county, and happy the man who could get but a sight of the hearse! But who'd have thought it? just as all was going on right, through his own town they were passing, when the body was seized for debt...
Página 186 - The genealogy, rank, possessions, the virtues and vices of the dead were rehearsed, and a number of interrogations were addressed to the deceased : as, Why did he die ? If married, whether his wife was faithful to him, his sons dutiful, or good hunters or warriors...
Página 19 - ... 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.
Página 46 - ... troubles. My lady came down herself into the kitchen, to speak to the cook about the sausages, and desired .never to see them more at her table. Now my master had ordered them, and my lady knew that. The cook took my lady's part, because she never came down into the kitchen, and was young and innocent in housekeeping, which raised her pity; besides, said she, at her own table, surely, my lady should order and disorder what she pleases ; but the cook soon changed her note, for my master made it...
Página 4 - ... himself from the wrath of heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men. 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. Likewise for a rebel it is as serviceable. For in...
Página 210 - When an Irish man or woman of the lower order dies, the straw which composed his bed, whether it has been contained in a bag to form a mattress, or simply spread upon the earthen floor, is immediately taken out of the house, and burned before the cabin door, the family at the same time setting up the death howl.
Página 27 - God bless him ! He valued a guinea as little as any man : money to him was no more than dirt, and his gentleman and groom, and all belonging to him, the same ; but the sporting season over, he grew tired of the place, and having -got down a great architect for the house, and an improver for the grounds, and seen their plans and elevations, he fixed a day for settling with the tenants, but went off in a whirlwind to town, just as some of them came into the yard in the morning.