Irish Wit and Humor: Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'ConnellJ. A. McGee, 1872 - 239 páginas |
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... Bores Sir R. Peel's Opinion of O'Connell Anecdote of O'Connell's Uncle A Slight Rebuke - 211 213 - 214 216 - 217 225 • 226 227 229 230 - 231 233 · 233 234 · 235 237 - 237 238 IRISH WIT AND HUMOR . DEAN SWIFT . HIS BIRTH viii CONTENTS .
... Bores Sir R. Peel's Opinion of O'Connell Anecdote of O'Connell's Uncle A Slight Rebuke - 211 213 - 214 216 - 217 225 • 226 227 229 230 - 231 233 · 233 234 · 235 237 - 237 238 IRISH WIT AND HUMOR . DEAN SWIFT . HIS BIRTH viii CONTENTS .
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... opinion of the Doc- tor than Lord Bolingbroke , he replied , " True , my Lord ; but let me tell you a story . In a sea fight in the reign of Charles the Second , there was a very bloody engagement between the Eng- lish and Dutch fleets ...
... opinion of the Doc- tor than Lord Bolingbroke , he replied , " True , my Lord ; but let me tell you a story . In a sea fight in the reign of Charles the Second , there was a very bloody engagement between the Eng- lish and Dutch fleets ...
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... opinion of me , as to suppose me capable of betraying him for any reward what- ever . " When this was related to the dean , he was so struck with the honor and generosity of sentiment , which it exhibited in one so humble in 64 IRISH ...
... opinion of me , as to suppose me capable of betraying him for any reward what- ever . " When this was related to the dean , he was so struck with the honor and generosity of sentiment , which it exhibited in one so humble in 64 IRISH ...
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... opinion even from the evidence of the defendant , that he declined an alliance which would have added to his fortune and consideration , and which he rejected for an unportioned union with his present wife - she too , at that time ...
... opinion even from the evidence of the defendant , that he declined an alliance which would have added to his fortune and consideration , and which he rejected for an unportioned union with his present wife - she too , at that time ...
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... refer your Lordship to a high authority behind me , who was intended for the church , though in my opinion he was fitter for the steeple . " USE OF RED TAPE . Curran , when Master of 136 IRISH WIT AND HUMOR . High Authority.
... refer your Lordship to a high authority behind me , who was intended for the church , though in my opinion he was fitter for the steeple . " USE OF RED TAPE . Curran , when Master of 136 IRISH WIT AND HUMOR . High Authority.
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Términos y frases comunes
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...