Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1838 - Ireland |
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Page 127 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 193 - Les vices entrent dans la composition des vertus, comme les poisons entrent dans la composition des remèdes : la prudence les assemble et les tempère, et elle s'en sert utilement contre les maux de la vie.
Page 172 - got speech of him," it would be " all up." He at once decided on using poison, and we have seen how it was prevented from taking effect upon his intended victim ; had any evidence been wanting, the remains of arsenic found in a paper on his person — his brother's letter, which the stone-mason had seen him receive — the contents of the beer when analyzed by a neighbouring doctor, who unhappily did not arrive until poor Michael had felt that something more than usual
Page 134 - What news you tell us," persisted Corney Burnett, or as he was commonly called " Black Burnett ;" " what news you tell us ! Who ever expected you to read and spin at the same time ? And indeed, dear Grace, it's glad of an excuse I'd be, set aside the reading, to get you from your wheel ; the bur and the twirl of it's never out of my eyes nor ears.
Page 166 - ... his country, whether poor or rich. I honour Matthew, and think him (and that is saying a great deal) as good as any English husband of my acquaintance. When Black Burnett got up, he was not a little annoyed at finding that pretty Grace had disappeared, contrary to his desire; and though he well knew the cause of her absence, for once he had the prudence to keep his own counsel, saying only to his guest that she had gone to Ross.
Page 143 - Burnett was a creature of smiles and tears — a sunbeam or a shadow. She had never been seen to frown, though she was often sad, because her uncle was at times moody, even to ill-temper — the neighbours said they sometimes pitied her; had they understood the happiness she felt in soothing his irritations, they would have envied her her delight when saying — " No one can please my dear uncle half as well as I.
Page 219 - ... it would have been so could. He then rooted with his stick among the buttercups and daisies that grew about it; and with a quick thought, flung off his hat, and fell on his knees upon the grass. As he fell, so, four men, vagabonds of the law, sprung on him.
Page 140 - Lord save us !" ejaculated the old man, as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe against a stone which projected from the back of the chimney. " ' The whole wide world !' " repeated Grace ; '"he used to roar and bawl whenever he couldn't set a faction fight a-foot ; and it isn't at that he'd stop, if he had his own way, for it was all fun to him ; — mortus est ! — he's dead, too ! There was the great Cicero, a mighty fine pracher, like myself, — mortus est — he's dead, too ! There was the...
Page 168 - Something what?" inquired his companion, unaccustomed to English slang. " Strong, you know. Come, my pretty mistress, a quart of Cherry's best!" The clear and beautiful ale sparkled as, after he received it, he poured a portion into a measure, and turned towards the fire with the remainder, inquiring of his companion, " Shall I warm it for you ? Would you like it warmed with some sugar and spice, as we do in Wales?" " No, no, do not put it on the fire, I would rather have it as it is," replied Burnett;...