The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys: A National Tale, 第 4 巻

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H. Colburn, 1827
 

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102 ページ - Ye good fellows all, Who love to be told where there's claret good store, Attend to the call of one who's ne'er frighted, But greatly delighted with six bottles more : Be sure you don't pass the good house Monyglas, Which the jolly red god so peculiarly owns; 'Twill well suit your humour, for pray what would you more, Than mirth with good claret, and bumpers, Squire Jones...
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229 ページ - The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh...
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