Memini, Or Reminiscences of Irish LifeHarrison & Sons, 1892 - 512 ページ |
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lxxix ページ - O'er stone walls and hedges, thro' dale, bog and briar, A pack of such hounds, and a set of such men, 'Tis a shrewd chance if ever you meet with again ; Had Nimrod the mighti'st of hunter's been there, Foregad he had shook like an aspen for fear.
xxvi ページ - If pour'd out by thee. You, who call it dishonour To bow to this flame, If you've eyes, look but on her, And blush while you blame. Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth ? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth ? No — Man for his glory To ancestry flies ; But Woman's bright story Is told in her eyes. While the Monarch but traces Through mortals his line, Beauty, born of the Graces, Ranks next to Divine ! THEY KNOW NOT MY HEART.
154 ページ - I am not sure but for the three days and a half of the election as little as I can call it and to be very exact it is in all or thereabouts as near as I can guess and not to be too particular is to me at least .£79 1 5 s.
lxxx ページ - Wanton," cried Joe, and the rest were not slack, For Wanton's no trifler esteemed by the pack; Old Bounty and Collier came readily in, And every hound joined in the musical din; Had Diana been there, she'd been pleased to the life, And one of the lads got a goddess to wife. Ten minutes past nine was the time of the day When Reynard broke cover, and this was his way — As strong from...
447 ページ - Thanks for that lesson — it will teach To after-warriors more Than high Philosophy can preach, And vainly preach'd before. That spell upon the minds of men Breaks never to unite again, That led them to adore Those Pagod things of sabre sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.
lxxix ページ - In seventeen hundred and forty and four, The fifth of December, I think, 'twas no more, At five in the morning by most of the clocks, We rode from Kilruddery in search of a fox.
lxxix ページ - Preston, that huntsman so stout, Dick Holmes, a few others, and so we set out. We cast off our hounds for an hour or more. When Wanton set up a most tuneable roar,
16 ページ - Tipperary, not only for his horsemen, kerne and galloglass, but also for his masons, carpenters, taillours, being in his owne werkes, and also for his sundry Huntes, that is to seye, 24 personnes with 60 Grehowndes and...
154 ページ - Nurse for poor Tom Kernan in the middle of the night, when he was not expected, is to me ten hogs, I don't talk of the piper for keeping him sober as long as he was sober, is to me...
153 ページ - Room, and 4 in another, at 2 Guineas every Bed, and not more than 4 in any Bed, at any time, cheap enough, God knows, is to me.