| Edmund Spenser - 1750 - 320 pages
...countervail the Difcommodity ; for the Inconveniences which thereby do arife, are much more many t for it is a fit Houfe for an Out-law, a meet Bed for a Rebel, and an apt Cloke for a Thief. Firft, the Out-law, being for his many Crimes and Villanies banifhed from the Towns... | |
| Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...countervail the Difcommodity ; for the Inconveniences which thereby do arife, are much more many : for it is a fit Houfe for an Out-law, a meet Bed for a Rebel, and an apt Cloke for a Thief. Firft, the Out-law, being for his many Crimes and Vilknies banifted from the Towns... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Fiction in English - 1801 - 240 pages
...discommodity ; for the inconveniences " which thereby do arise, are much more many ; " for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed " for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief— First, * 2 » (he sleeves ; they are as good as new, though come Holantide next, I've had it these... | |
| English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...discommodite; for the inconveuiencies which thereby doe arise, are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife First the out-law being for -bis many •nay crijbes and villanyes banished from... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...the difcommoditie ; for the inconveniencies which thereby doe arife, are much more many; for it is a fit houfe for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. Firft the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banifhed from the townes... | |
| Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 322 pages
...sultry summer, and of which the poet, with some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks : " It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed, " for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief : first, the outlaw " being for his many cinmes and villanies, banished from the «' towns and houses... | |
| 1806 - 688 pages
...sultry summer, and of which the poet with some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks : " It is a fit house for an outlaw, a. meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief: first, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanies, banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
| Sir John Carr - Ireland - 1806 - 366 pages
...which the poet, with / some bitterness of spirit, thus speaks: " It is a fit house for an out" law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief: first, the " outlaw being, for his many crimes and villanies, banished from " the towns and houses... | |
| English literature - 1807 - 604 pages
...or mantle, made of woollen, of fton* colour.' Let Spenfer defcribe its ufes, then I am fafe. ' It is a fit houfe for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.' " Our readers will obferve, that the paflages marked with inverted commas are extracted from Sir John... | |
| Sir Richard Colt Hoare - Ireland - 1807 - 474 pages
...cloathing : for according to the account given of it by our English poet SPENSER, " it was a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. * In drawing the parallel between the Irishman and the Welshman, I allude only to the lower class of... | |
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