 | Francis Nottidge MacNamara - 1895 - 654 páginas
...says he, ' our houses were built of willow, we had oaken men, but now that our houses have come to be of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many, through Persian delicacy, crept in amongst us altogether of straw.' William Pope, the manor, with its... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 1898 - 754 páginas
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 | Henry O'Brien - 1898 - 692 páginas
...when houses were built with willow, then had we oaken men ; but now our houses are come to be built of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many altogether of straw."1 St. Bernard, also, in reference to the Irish, having mentioned that Malachy O'Morgan, archbishop... | |
 | William Wolfe Capes - 1901 - 390 páginas
...very few were acquainted. . . . When our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men, but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become as willows, but a great many altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." Now, to come back to... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - 1908 - 402 páginas
...luxury. " When our houses were builded of willow," said Harrison, " then had we oaken men ; but now our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but many, through Persian delicacy crept in among us, altogether of straw. Now have we many chimneys, and... | |
 | Phoebe Sheavyn - 1909 - 264 páginas
...self-indulgence. " When our houses were builded of willow," he says, " then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our men are not only become willow, but a great many (through Persian delicacy crept in among us) altogether of straw."3 Patriotic feeling naturally centred... | |
 | William Henry Helm - 1921 - 310 páginas
...cries, for it reads like a cry : " When our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration." Strange as his ideas sometimes were, it would not appear certain that the Rector of Radwinter actually... | |
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... palaces, navigation, &c. but now sallow, &c. are rejected, and nothing but oak any where regarded ; and yet see the change ; for when our houses were builded of willow, then had we oaken men ; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak, our... 
