Irish Wit and Humor: Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'ConnellJ. A. McGee, 1872 - 239 páginas |
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... character . Spence thus relates a story told by Pope : " Dr. Swift had an odd blunt way that is mistaken by stran- gers for ill nature . It is so odd that there is no describing it but by facts . first comes into my 30 IRISH WIT AND ...
... character . Spence thus relates a story told by Pope : " Dr. Swift had an odd blunt way that is mistaken by stran- gers for ill nature . It is so odd that there is no describing it but by facts . first comes into my 30 IRISH WIT AND ...
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... character which , through life , always kindled Swift's indignation , the haughty , presuming , tyrannizing upstart ! A person of this description chanced to reside in the parish of Laracor . Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his ...
... character which , through life , always kindled Swift's indignation , the haughty , presuming , tyrannizing upstart ! A person of this description chanced to reside in the parish of Laracor . Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his ...
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... character . To repeat all the anecdotes and witticisms which are recorded of the prolific genius of Roger in the simple annals of Laracor , would fill a little volume . He died at the good old age of ninety . Soon after Swift's arrival ...
... character . To repeat all the anecdotes and witticisms which are recorded of the prolific genius of Roger in the simple annals of Laracor , would fill a little volume . He died at the good old age of ninety . Soon after Swift's arrival ...
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... characters , with which no one was , perhaps , better acquainted . " You , my Lords , " said the Dean to several young noblemen , " I wish to introduce to some new acquaintance , who will at least make their acknowledgment for your ...
... characters , with which no one was , perhaps , better acquainted . " You , my Lords , " said the Dean to several young noblemen , " I wish to introduce to some new acquaintance , who will at least make their acknowledgment for your ...
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... character , could not fail of being pleasing to the owner , who was , at the same time , the planner of these improvements ; and so fine an eulogium from one , who was supposed to deal more largely in satire , than panegyric , was ...
... character , could not fail of being pleasing to the owner , who was , at the same time , the planner of these improvements ; and so fine an eulogium from one , who was supposed to deal more largely in satire , than panegyric , was ...
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acquainted afterwards anecdote appearance arrival ARTHUR O'LEARY asked Assizes attorney beauty Biddy Bill Mack called Catholic character charity Chief Justice Church Church Stretton clergyman client Cork counsel court cried Curran D'Esterre DANIEL O'CONNELL Darby Moran Dean Swift Dean's defence dine dinner Doctor Dublin Dunboyne eloquence England English farmer Father O'Leary favor friar gentlemen give Grattan guests head heart honor humor Ireland Irish JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN Jonathan Belcher judge jury knew lady LADY MORGAN Laracor letter liberty lived Lord Avonmore Lord Bolingbroke Lord Clare Lordship matter Moriarty never nolle prosequi O'Connell O'Connell's O'Leary's occasion once party person pleased political poor preached present priest Protestant religion replied respect Robert Blakely Roger says scene Scriblerus Club sent sermon servant speak speech talent tell Thomastown tion told took walk Wesley woman words wretched young
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Página 31 - Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket? — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Página 37 - THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE'S MEDITATIONS. '""PHIS single stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying •*- in that neglected corner, I once knew in a flourishing state in a forest ; it was full of sap, full of leaves, and full of boughs ; but now, in vain does the busy art of man pretend to vie with nature, by tying that withered bundle of twigs to its sapless trunk...
Página 46 - Tis a cheese, which by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are the best.
Página 38 - ... his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs (all covered with powder), that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's chamber, we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity.
Página 111 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Página 43 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 31 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him: you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in, 'Heyday, gentlemen...
Página 128 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory ; I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day...
Página 104 - Britain, a printer has been gravely found guilty of a libel, for publishing those resolutions, to which the present minister of that kingdom had actually subscribed his name ? To what other cause can you ascribe, what in my mind is still more astonishing, in such a country as Scotland, a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth ; cool and ardent, adventurous and persevering ; winning her eagle flight against...
Página 39 - ... with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances, rakes into every slut's corner of nature, bringing hidden corruption to the light, and raises a mighty dust where there was none before; sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away...