 He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners and characters, which are, perhaps, unknown in England. Indeed, the domestic habits of no nation in Europe were less known to the English than those of their sister country, till within these...  Works - Page 126by Maria Edgeworth - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Maria Edgeworth - Fiction in English - 1801 - 240 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...till within these few years, Mr. Young's picture of Ire land, in his tour through that country, was the first faithful portrait of its inhabitants. All... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Ireland - 1801 - 244 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...to the English, than those of their sister country, til] within these few years. Mr. Young's picture of Ireland, in his tour through that country, was... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1804 - 242 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...in England. Indeed the domestic habits of no nation ia,Europe were less known to the English, than those of their sister country, till within these few... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Administration of estates - 1810 - 238 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...their sister country, till within these few years. Mr. Mr. Young's picture of Ireland, in his tour through that country, was the first faithful portrait of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 440 pages
...more pathetic, if bethought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...their sister country, till within these few years. that mixture of quickness, simplicity, cunning, carelessness, dissipation, disinterestedness, shrewdness,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Absentee landlordism - 1895 - 446 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...the domestic habits of no nation in Europe were less 72 known to the English than those of their sister country, till within these few years. Mr. Young's... | |
 | Renate Mace - Dialect literature, English - 1987 - 306 pages
...Nachwort zu der 1800 entstandenen Erzählung Caatle Rackrent erklärt sie: [To lay the tale] — betore the English reader as a specimen of manners and characters,...their sister country, till within these few years. (CR, 63 )1 In der Darstellung dieser "manners and characters" folgt Maria Edgeworth einer Richtung,... | |
 | Norbert Bachleitner - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 656 pages
...InhaltsanaMaria Edgeworth schrieb als Nachbemerkung zu ihrem Roman Castle Rackrent: »He [the editor] lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners and characters, which are perbaps unknown in England. Indeed the domestic habits of no nation in Europe were less known to the... | |
 | Heidi Kaufman, Christopher J. Fauske - History - 2004 - 308 pages
...pathetic, if he thought it allowable to varnish the plain round tale of faithful Thady. He lays it before the English reader as a specimen of manners...their sister country, till within these few years. (121) The final irony of this text rests in the historic reception of the novel. A perfect example... | |
 | International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Conference - History - 2006 - 372 pages
...more dramatic and more pathetic", but he preferred to lay "the plain round tale of faithful Thady ... before the English reader as a specimen of manners...characters, which are perhaps unknown in England". As to the present and future, he symptomatically ends with a doubt and a riddle: 36 Ibid, 66. It is... | |
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