Tales of Fashionable Life: Ennui. The dunBaldwin & Cradock, 1832 |
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admired Anne believe better bless brother O'Toole called captain carriage Cecil Devereux Cecilia charming child Christy colonel Pembroke common sage Crawley cried dear door Dublin earl of Glenthorn Ellinor ennui exertions fashionable father favour feelings felt fortune gentleman Glenthorn Castle hands happy head hear heard heart hope horse indolence Ireland Irish Joe Kelly justice of peace knew lady Geraldine lady Glenthorn lady Hauton lady Kildangan lady Kilrush ladyship Lake of Killarney live look lord Craiglethorpe lord Glenthorn lord O'Toole lord Y lordship M'Leod manner marriage married mind miss Tracey morning mother never night nurse O'Donoghoe opinion Ormsby Villa Paddy plase your honour pleasure poor postilions racter recollected scarcely seemed servants Sherwood Park speak sure Swanlinbar talk tell there's thing thought tion voice whilst wife wish woman word young
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Page 130 - Voilà, dit-elle, madame, cette personne dont je vous ai entretenue, qui a un si grand esprit, qui sait tant de choses. Allons, mademoiselle, parlez. Madame, vous allez voir comme elle parle. » Elle vit que j'hésitais à répondre, et pensa qu'il fallait m'aider comme une chanteuse qui prélude, à qui l'on indique l'air qu'on désire d'entendre. « Parlez un peu de religion, me dit-elle; vous direz ensuite autre chose.
Page 116 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 116 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Page 153 - Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 86 - the greatest part of the buildings in the cities and good towns of England consisted only of timber, cast over with thick clay to keep out the wind.
Page 128 - Qui te pourra louer qu'en se taisant ? Car la parole est toujours reprimee Quand le sujet surmonte le disant.
Page 76 - M'Leod was perfectly silent. The company broke up ; and, as we were going out of the room, I maliciously asked M'Leod, why he, who could say so much in his own defence, had suffered himself to be so completely silenced.
Page 41 - ... a shouting troop of ragged boys followed, and pushed them fairly to the top. Half an hour afterwards, as we were putting on our drag-chain to go down another steep hill, to my utter astonishment, Paddy, with his horses in full gallop, came rattling and chehupping past us. My people called to warn him that he had no drag, but still he cried - "Never fear!" - and shaking the long reins, and stamping with his foot, on he went thundering down the hill. My Englishmen were aghast. "The turn yonder...
Page 18 - And the reason is because in the opinion of this people fostering hath always been a stronger alliance than blood, and the foster-children do love and are beloved of their foster-fathers and their sept more than of their own natural parents and kindred, and do participate of their means more frankly, and do adhere unto them in all fortunes with more affection and constancy.