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affection afther Ahadarra asked beauty betther brother Bryan M'Mahon Burke's Carriglass Chevydale consequence Crazy Jane dance darlin dear Dora Edward Burke exclaimed eyes farm father feel fellow felt Fethertonge Finigan gentleman Gerald Cavanagh gintlemen girl give goin hand Hanna Harry hear heard heart honest Jemmy honour hope Hycy Burke Hycy's Irish ISAAC BUTT James Cavanagh Jemmy Burke Kate Hogan Kathleen Cavanagh landlord larned laughing lave letter look mane marry masther matter mean minutes Miss Clinton mother Nanny Peety never night O'Finigan observed occasion ould Philip Philomath plaise poor poteen principle proceeded replied Bryan replied Hycy respect scarcely Shibby sister smile sorrow spake spirit spoke stood sure Teddy Phats tell thank there's thing Throth truth turn uncle uttered Vanston voice vote whilst wife wish word worthy young
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Page 138 - YE banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o
Page 205 - I GAED a waefu' gate yestreen, A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue ; I gat my death frae twa sweet een, Twa lovely een o
Page 2 - ... the cloudless sun. Around them, in every field, were the tokens of that pleasant labor from which the hopes of ample and abundant harvests always spring. Here, fixed in the ground, stood the spades of a boon* of laborers, who, as was evident from that circumstance, were then at breakfast ; in another place might be seen the plough and a portion of the tackle lying beside it, being expressive of the same fact. Around them, on every side, in hedges, ditches, green fields, and meadows, the birds...
Page 8 - When I was at home I was merry and frisky, My dad kept a pig and my mother sold whisky, My uncle was rich but would never be asy Till I was enlisted by Corporal Casey.
Page 9 - Oh, love is the soul of a nate Irishman — He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, With his sprig of—' Ah, Peety Dhu, how are you, my worthy peripatetic?
Page 223 - ... utterance, with proper spirit, to sentiments of plain common sense, was assailed by every description of abuse, until he knew not where to take refuge from that cowardly and ferocious tyranny which in a hundred shapes proceeds from the public mob. " On the Sunday after the election the curate of the parish, one of those political firebrands who, whether under a mitre or a white band, are equally disgraceful and detrimental to religion and the peaceful interests of mankind— this man, we say,...
Page 87 - ... -with some exceptions we admit, as in the case of old leases — but especially by those who hold under middlemen, or on the principle of sub-letting generally. By this system a vast deal of distress and petty but most harassing oppression is every day in active operation upon the property of the head landlord, which he can never know, and for which he is in no other way responsible unless by having ever permitted the existence of it, for any purpose whatsoever.