Sketches of the Irish Bar, Volume 2Redfield, 1854 - 388 halaman |
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... seemed to have some inherent and natural incompatibility with laughter , which the Momus of the bench could not remove . While peals rang upon peals of merriment , and men were obliged to hold their sides , lest they should burst with ...
... seemed to have some inherent and natural incompatibility with laughter , which the Momus of the bench could not remove . While peals rang upon peals of merriment , and men were obliged to hold their sides , lest they should burst with ...
Halaman 40
... seemed with its wintry murmurs to whisper to the old man a funeral admonition . He appeared , as he urged on his horse and tried to hurry from so dismal a scene , to shrink and huddle himself from the blast . In anti- cipation of an ...
... seemed with its wintry murmurs to whisper to the old man a funeral admonition . He appeared , as he urged on his horse and tried to hurry from so dismal a scene , to shrink and huddle himself from the blast . In anti- cipation of an ...
Halaman 41
... seemed to be surveying the gulf on the brink of which he stood , and presented , in his ghastly aspect and motionless demeanor , a reproof of the spirit of hilarity with which he was to be sent before his God ! It is not that there is ...
... seemed to be surveying the gulf on the brink of which he stood , and presented , in his ghastly aspect and motionless demeanor , a reproof of the spirit of hilarity with which he was to be sent before his God ! It is not that there is ...
Halaman 55
... seemed to have ever had any beard . The fellow's dress was calculated to set off his figure . It left his breast almost bare , and , the knees of his breeches being open , a great part of his muscular legs appeared without cov- ering ...
... seemed to have ever had any beard . The fellow's dress was calculated to set off his figure . It left his breast almost bare , and , the knees of his breeches being open , a great part of his muscular legs appeared without cov- ering ...
Halaman 56
... seemed exceedingly anx- ious to impress upon the crowd that , though he was a stag , " it was hot for gold that he had sold the cause . Life itself was the only bribe that could move his honor , and even the tempt- ation which the ...
... seemed exceedingly anx- ious to impress upon the crowd that , though he was a stag , " it was hot for gold that he had sold the cause . Life itself was the only bribe that could move his honor , and even the tempt- ation which the ...
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Halaman 230 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
Halaman 76 - Ireland; a long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit of exerting a very lofty superiority, and their vassals into that of an almost unlimited submission: speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred ()and being disarmed, the poor find themselves in many cases slaves even in the bosom of written liberty.
Halaman 73 - ... and, having taken the administration of justice into their own hands, were not very exact in the distribution of it.
Halaman 138 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Halaman 294 - O'Connell rallied Mr. Gore to such a point upon this head, and that of his supposed origin, that the latter completely sunk under the attack. He next proceeded to Mr. Fitzgerald, and, having drawn a picture of the late Mr. Perceval, he turned round and asked of the rival candidate, with what face he could call himself their friend, when the first act of his political life was to enlist himself under the banners of
Halaman 79 - A Protestant King of Ireland, A Protestant Parliament, A Protestant Hierarchy, Protestant Electors and Government, The Benches of Justice, The Army and the Revenue. Through all their Branches and Details, Protestant: And this System Supported by a Connection with the Protestant Realm of Britain.
Halaman 286 - ... visages were seen felicitously intermixed, outside the balustrade of the gallery on the left hand of the Sheriff. Before the business began, a gentleman was observed on whom every eye was turned. He had indeed chosen a most singular position ; for instead of sitting like the other auditors on the seats in the gallery, he leaped over it, and, suspending himself above the crowd, afforded what was an object of wonder to the great body of the spectators, and of indignation to the High Sheriff.
Halaman 37 - Lord Norbury has been always remarkable for his frugality. He was in the habit of stuffing papers into the old chairs in his study, in order to supply the deficiency of horse-hair which the incumbency of eighty years had produced in their bottoms. At last, however, they became, even with the aid of this occasional supplement, unfit for use, and were sent by his Lordship to a shop in which old furniture was advertised to be bought and sold. An individual of the name of Monaghan got one of these chairs...
Halaman 287 - at the end of it, hung conspicuously over his breast ; and a profusion of black curls, curiously festooned about his temples, shadowed a very handsome and expressive countenance, a great part of which was occupied by whiskers of a bushy amplitude.
Halaman 109 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.