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...er in business! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishm... ...1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked the speakeasies of the 20s. Sophie was one of America‘s most famous singer... ...quality of time spent with and for that person. A father might devote many hours with his son coaching him in athletics. He coaches the boy in Pop Wa... ...ing to. If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish,... ... largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egyptian pyramid revolving above it, the unamplified voices of the world‘s greatest singer...

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... to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jew... ...bal crop failure. Without a high diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China ... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside... ... is based upon owning and operating small shops or small businesses. Mom and pop stores. Run by a single family. The owner sitting behind his or ... ...ions came from. Maybe they are just the same business model as these mom-and pop stores, except expanded to a larger size and degree of greed and we... ...No Wal-Mart could ever survive running on the slim profit margin of a mom-and-pop store. No oil corporation could ever survive on a small profit ma... ...re of Ulster had deflected attention away from England herself, and the Ire of Irish, all their energy was wasted fighting Scots in Ulster, not Engla...

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...in Europe, behind Ireland, France, the Czech Republic and the UK. And the Irish are the most church going in Europe. Of course the French and the Cze... ...he social welfare benefits were not reduced and were often increased. The Irish taxation model has shifted from taxing labor to taxing consumption. I... ... 21%, but it is still below the Nordic countries level of 25%. ―The Irish approach is now seen as the most efficient. It surpassed all other EU... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne...

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...years before applying. Thirty is our normal threshold age. You don‟t just pop out of puberty and automatically become ready for parenthood. Most pe... ...ternational hotel reservations. The previously low paid but well educated Irish picked up the same kinds of jobs and became centers for international... ...om Central America. The times have changed since the 1800s when we needed Irish and Chinese laborers to build the railroads—and much of the rest of t... ...tial. Salaries here are pretty much performance based. As we said earlier, singers, actors and professional athletes are paid little. They are superf...

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...rvell if we understand them not: no more doe we the Cornish, the Welch, or Irish. Yet have some boasted that they understood them, as Apollonius Thya... ...clothes. Our ancient Gaules were but slightly apparelled, no more are the Irish-men, our neighbours, in so cold a climate: which we may better judge... ... chauds les pieds et la teste, Au demeurant vivez en beste. -- JOUB. Err. Pop. pur. ii. 140. Keep warme ('tis meete) the head and feete: In all th... ...him, that it is a custome of popular or base men to call for minstrels or singers at feasts, and an argument they want witty or good discourses and p...

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... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...some, Countess Bardolph, Lord Fenton, Lady Page, were perfumed bores; the Irishmen were troublemakers... The Captain of the Guard requested a dance... ...n...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared grin. Meerie, talking Irish, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filt... ...e she played I would be at my writing. In the midst of her fun, she might pop up and say: “Papa, you’re working too hard: you never have fun.” Her c... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ... ...t an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With his friendly Irish spirit, he has favored Irish immigration. With his eye on the presid...

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...Korean language) on the signs, looked as identical as the occasional mom and pop stores and it was all indistinguishable from what he saw minutes and ... ...ved down sidewalks like window-shopping loiterers looking into every mom and pop store along the way. "Ilchik tangshin-tul rul basketball ul hayoshimn... ...aditional music from small speakers, and sang into microphones; more mom and pop stores on each block than one could count; and tight department store... ... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...

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...he city lying in waves around it, those mad and dismal fanatics, the Sweet Singers, haggard from long expo- sure on the moors, sat day and night with ... ... with jolly, port-wine faces underneath. Even in the chief thor- oughfares Irish washings flutter at the windows, and the pavements are encumbered wit... ... a field of grass. The daylight shines garishly on the back windows of the Irish quarter; on broken shutters, wry gables, old palsied houses on the br... ...ight, inclines a poet to the praise of strong waters. In Scotland, all our singers have a stave or two for blazing fires and stout potations:- to get ...

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...a bullock’s heart, a baked shoulder of mutton and potatoes, pig’s- fry and Irish stew. I ordered the dinner, sir, and got more credit for inventing it... ...n Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose. Larkins was certainly the... ...whenever she was wanted, or when people could not afford to hire the first singers) she was asked to parties else- where, and treated with that killin... ... the college in Queer Street, ma’am, haw, haw! Mulligan, you divvle (in an Irish accent), a glass of wine with you. Wine, here, you waiter! What’s you... ...doggedly when there is a necessity for so doing, the former fights like an Irishman, and has a pleasure in it. He has been “on the ground” I don’t kno... ...he manager, whose actions were worth of remark. He sang with all the three singers, and a great deal louder than any of them; he shouted bravo! or his... ...ant; and I am sur- prised how she could have taken up with a horrid odious Pop- ish apothecary!” From the extent of the widow’s information, I am led ...

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...ng lay of victory was over; and King Henry had roused himself to thank the singers, then sighed, and said, ‘How long ago that was!’ ‘Six years,’ said ... ...rly morning, Malcolm looked out and beheld a whole troop of small children pop- ping in and out of a low archway. If he could have peeped in, he would... ...universities where Scots were not—their place being taken by multitudinous Irish; yet not only were all universi- ties alike in essentials, but he had...

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...Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, “ ‘Gad, I’ll pop the question at V auxhall.” 41 Thackeray CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours CUFF... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair His pres... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ... ...im still. Even yet she used to send him little hurried smuggled notes, and pop them into the post in private. The one dreadful secret which weighed up... ...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ...

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...e, which did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was fel... ...a man on such a subject. I consign him to the attentions of some patriotic Irishman. Schlosser, however, is right in a graver reflection which he make... ...ty; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is ex... ..., which would be better still, to import from Lancashire the Handel chorus-singers. But then, again, whatever change in the music were made, so as to ... ...ilton, the author has grossly mis-translated a passage in the Defensio pro Pop. Anglicano: and, if that bishop were not dead, I would here take the li... ...dnotes ndnotes ndnotes 1 ‘Six planets;’—No more had then been discovered. POP POP POP POP POPE’S RET E’S RET E’S RET E’S RET E’S RETOR OR OR OR ORT U...

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...dia- lect, now in that, with various degrees of clearness: all true gifted Singers and Speakers are, consciously or unconsciously, doing so. The dark ... ...g; the subjectless King can do something. This Montrose, with a handful of Irish or Highland savages, few of them so much as guns in their hands, dash...

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...ffscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad-singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed l... ...burnt; but the sounder Rags among them be quilted to- gether into one huge Irish watch-coat for the defence of the Body only!”—This, we think, is but ... ...he Universe, and Man, and Man’s Life, picture themselves to the mind of an Irish Poor-Slave; with what feelings and opinions he looks forward on the F... ...acal Sect in their grand principle of wearing a peculiar Costume. Of which Irish Poor-Slave Costume no description will indeed be found in the present...

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... re- marked, “If you tell her the company is grand, she will come, and her Irish once heard here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump ... ... here will destroy us. The very name of Chump!” Mrs. Chump was the wealthy Irish widow of an alderman, whose unaccountable bad taste in going to Irela... ...saloon was critically still; so still that Adela fancied she heard a faint Irish protest from the parlour. Wilfrid was perhaps the most critical audit... ...ian heads might be discerned. The names of the Queen of Song and Prince of Singers flew round the room; and Laura uttered words of real grati- tude, f... ...e horses and just tip up the off wheels, and round the place in a twinkle, pop ‘m in again, and nobody hurt; but you can’t ask ladies to risk catchin’... ...hen: though, I’ll tell you what: have you ever noticed the calves of those singers?—I mean, the men. Perhaps not—for they’ ve got none. They’re sticks...

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...Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, “ ‘Gad, I’ll pop the question at V auxhall.” 41 Thackeray CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours CUFF... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair – V olum... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ...

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...L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE OF ALEXANDER POP LIFE ... ... poet lays A table, 77 with a cloth of bays; And Ireland, mother of sweet singers, Presents her harp 78 still to his fingers. The feast, his towerin... ...e entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. 78 ‘Harp:’ the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c. 79 ‘Prologues:’ Dryden used to se... ...e Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins which Pris...

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...e they had a chance to marry; and studious, some- times bulbous-browed and pop-eyed maidens who at class prayer-meetings requested God to “guide their... ...garding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oratio... ...parties and stunts and everything. Here! Don’t touch a thing! Done enough. Pop up to bed, and I’ll clear up.” His wise surgeon’s-hands stroked her sho... ... the movies she impulsively summoned Vida Sherwin and Guy to the house for pop- corn and cider. In the living-room Vida and Kennicott debated “the val... ... from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had pain... ... Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taine... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui...

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... paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish 20 Babbitt or any other foreign government. Keep our hands strictly ... ... but clung to her strength. She cried cheerily, “Now up-stairs you go, and pop into bed. We’ll fix it all up. I’ll see to the doors. Now skip!” For ma... ...eered—young cynical work- men, for the most part foreigners, Jews, Swedes, Irishmen, Italians—but the older men, the patient, bleached, stooped carpen... ...arefully tucked into my vest pocket, I am reminded of the story of the two Irishmen, Mike and Pat, who were riding on the Pullman. Both of them, I for... ... also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s highest-paid singers. “‘In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shab... ...g home, he passed McKelvey’s limousine and saw Sir Gerald, a large, ruddy, pop-eyed, Teutonic Englishman whose dribble of yellow mustache gave him an ... ...the arms of Lithuania) was a half-familiar man, a large red-faced man with pop eyes and a deficient yellow mustache. He seemed kind and insignificant,...

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... the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in the pulpi... ...ard name, while the other looks about for it on all the doors and windows. Irishmen both! You might know them, if they were masked, by their long tail... ...nd make canals and roads, and execute great lines of Internal Improvement! Irishmen both, and sorely puzzled too, to find out what they seek. Let us g... ... it is quite ready for use, shooting the old one from his mouth, as from a pop gun, and clapping the new one in its place. I was surprised to observe ... ...the copper. He carries its people too. They are partly American and partly Irish, and herd together on the lower deck; where they amused them selves ...

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... astonished by a tremendous popping—fabric, wires, everything seemed going pop, pop, pop, like a ma- chine-gun, and then came a flash of intense pain ... ...to her feet. “Poff,” she said, “I want to go and see the evening primroses pop. You and I are talking non- sense. They don’t have ideas anyhow. They j... ... You and I are talking non- sense. They don’t have ideas anyhow. They just pop—as God meant them to do. What stupid things we human beings are!” Her p... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o... ...to pull the legislature of the British Isles to pieces in obedience to the Irish demand for Home Rule, and they were totally unpre- pared with any sch...

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...on were seated in the little draw- ing-room, listening to the professional singers, who were sing- ing according to their wont, and as if they wished ... ...d going for a reading excursion to Nonnenwerth or Konigswinter; there were Irish gentlemen, with the most dashing whiskers and jewellery, talking abou...

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...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d... ...legant woman—fashionable rather than bohe- mian. She was cream and auburn, Irish, with a slightly-lifted upper lip that gave her a pathetic look. She ... ...ody!” said Jim. “But you’re British yourself,” said Lilly to Jim. “No, I’m Irish. Family’s Irish—my mother was a Fitz- patrick.” “Anyhow you live in E... ...d, watching the bubbles float round his head, and almost hear- ing them go pop. To complete the party arrived an elderly litterateur who was more prou...

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...Good, strong, wholesome medi cine, as was given with great success to two Irish labourers and a coal heaver, ony a week before—sent ‘em for nothing, ... ... of the place, were the pub lic houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wran gling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which h... ...the books under his arm. It’s all right enough. They’re soft hearted psalm singers, or they wouldn’t have taken him in at all; and they’ll ask no ques... ...oby Crackit. ‘How are you, Faguey?’ said this worthy, nodding to the Jew. ‘Pop that shawl away in my castor, Dodger, so that I may know where to find ... ...an ear for everything that was said—and sharp ones, too. Near him were the singers: receiving, with professional indifference, the compliments of the ...

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...r tropical growths. And the parterres were admired; also the newly-planted Irish junipers bounding the West-walk; and the three tiers of stately desce... ...se would surely be. Nataly was not so sympathetic. Only the Welsh and pure Irish are quick at the feelings of the Celtic French. Nataly came of a York... ...sea-fish rolling head over-you know not head from tail. Without the Welsh, Irish, Scot; in their composi- tion, there would not be much of the yeasty ... ... you. But you are hungry? Y ou have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard you... ...hrilled her and set her guessing. ‘A taste of his favourite Cayenne lolly- pop, Colney; it fetches the tear he loves to shed, or it gives him digestiv...

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...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through... ...ome and see her then.” “Y es: exactly—that’s capital. I’ll tell her you’ll pop in to 133 Edith Wharton morrow morning. And now do sit down a minute, ... ...She lay late in bed, refusing the coffee and fried eggs which the friendly Irish servant thrust through her door, and hating the intimate domestic noi... ...e Reynolds dress when she heard a tap at her door, and the red fist of the Irish maid-servant thrust in a belated letter. Carrying it to the light, Li...

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...d, apoplectic sort of fellow, and, plied well with good things, would soon pop off.” He had a wife about fifteen years his junior, but no children; an... ...hat. Oh! I believe I was relating to her some ridiculous stories of an old Irish groom of my uncle’s. Your sister loves to laugh.” “You think her more... ...w,” smiling, “better company. I could not have hoped to entertain you with Irish anecdotes during a ten miles’ drive.” “Naturally, I believe, I am as ... ...le degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the most urgent in requesting to hear the glee again. 98 Ma...

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...reat grandmother by the mother’s side was a cousin, not far removed, to an Irish peer. Secondly, her wages were greater. And lastly, she had been at L... ...om their immortality. Lord *It is happy for M. Dacier that he was not an Irishman. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding 299 Sha... ...ad, never missed church o’ Sundays, and was reckoned one of the best psalm singers in the whole parish. He would indeed now and then take a cup too mu... ...the danger to which the Protestant religion was so visibly exposed under a Pop ish prince, and thought the apprehension of it alone suffi cient to j...

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...(Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed ... ...actually tilled and delved, till it will grow no more? How thick stands your Pop ulation in the Pampas and Savannas of America; round ancient Carthag... ... be burnt; but the sounder Rags among them be quilted together into one huge Irish watch coat for the defence of the Body only!”—This, we think, is b... ... the Universe, and Man, and Man’s Life, picture themselves to the mind of an Irish Poor Slave; with what feelings and opinions he looks forward on the... ...acal Sect in their grand prin ciple of wearing a peculiar Costume. Of which Irish Poor Slave Costume no description will indeed be found in the prese...

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...rives me wild. And I know Joe couldn’t have borne to see me in it.” At the Irishism of which she burst out laughing, and laughed her- self into the te... ... Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, and coming to dance and sing in fron... ...191 Yonge CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVII POP POP POP POP POPINJA INJA INJA INJA INJAY P Y P Y P Y P Y PARL ARL ARL A... ...not help laughing. “‘Come on, old T urk, you’ll find hot work— Pop goes the weasel! They cut and run; my eyes, what fun!— Pop... ...s grief and rage had almost maddened one of Annie’s lovers, a young man of Irish blood, a leader among the rest. On the day of her fu- neral all the r... ...eeded to extremities with a lonely woman and dying child, but there was an Irish and Spanish element of ferocity at Burkeville, and the cold, hard Eng...

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...lu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We ‘eld our bloomin’ own, the papers... ... S There was a row in Silver Street that’s near to Dublin Quay, Between an Irish regiment an’ English cavalree; It started at Revelly an’ it lasted on... ...net’s nest — we met them good an’ large, The English at the double an’ the Irish at the charge. Then it was: — “Belts … There was a row in Silver ... ...treet — they sent the Polis there, The English were too drunk to know, the Irish didn’t care; But when they grew impertinint we simultaneous rose, Ki... ... he heard the matchlocks clink, he blessed the King again. Which thing the singers made a song for all the world to sing, So that the Outer Seas may k... ...unt us filin’ by — V erses 1889 to 1896 301 Won’t the Colonel praise ‘is Pop — u — lar — i — ty! We ‘ave scores to settle — Scores for more than be...

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...ce. The application was successful, the meet- ing was held; the orator (an Irishman) came. He talked of green isles—other shores—vast Atlantic—bosom o... ...Mrs. Macklin does the same, and after a few words to Mrs. Walker, they all pop into their little houses, and slam their little street-doors, which are... ...ts, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly aver that we dou... ... dimensions; but a Frenchman—a French- man in Seven Dials! Pooh! He was an Irishman. Tom King’s education had been neglected in his infancy, and as he... ...d fountains glittered and sparkled before our eyes; the beauty of the lady singers and the elegant deportment of the gentlemen, captivated our hearts;... ...t shades of cloudy-white.—’Pray, silence, gentlemen, for non no- bis!’ The singers, whom you discover to be no other than the very party that excited ... ...-room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass; and such an organ! Miss J’mim... ...ee how the pudding and boiled pork were getting on in the copper, and then pop back into the parlour again, as snug and comfortable as possible. And s...

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...od it. At night we feasted in the Great Hall, and when the harpers and the singers were gone we four sat late at the high table. As I remember, it was... ... continents, being now hid away in St Barnabas’ church-tower. Clear as the Irish coast at noonday!” “They’d sure never dare to do it,” I said; “and, f... ...ot afraid that those men yonder’— he jerked his head towards the incessant POP-POP of the guns from the lower woods -’will do you hurt?’ ‘We-ell’—Dan ...

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...them as the means of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two principles; the rar... ...ly as much discouraged as is consistent with justice and fair dealing, the Irish can work up but a smaller part of their own wool at home, and are the... ...icians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of these has a certa... ...ea between Ireland and Great Britain, indeed, renders the impor- tation of Irish cattle more easy. But though the free importation of them, which was ... ...ers of Great Britain. Those parts of Great Brit- ain which border upon the Irish sea are all grazing countries. Irish cattle could never be imported f... ...d to the living. Dion Cassius, { Lib. 55. See also Burman. de Vectigalibus Pop. Rom. cap. xi. and Bouchaud de l’impot du vingtieme sur les suc- cessio...