 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 페이지
...old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them. These indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator ; who comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1828 - 496 페이지
...taste of that flesh meat, with which we so much abound ; but are pinched in every article of life1." I refer to Archbishop Boulter's letters for a full...their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog-stie to receive them4;" these, he says, "are the comfortable sights which await an absentee, who... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 페이지
...a journey amongst us would be apt to think himself travelling in Lapland or Iceland, rather than in a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness...their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog-stie to receive them. These," says Swift, " are the comfortable sights which await an absentee... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1829 - 542 페이지
...Letters, 2d series, b List of Absentees, p. 32. vol. iv. pp. 318,319. $ III.] AND THEIR REMEDIES. 17 nobility and gentry in ruins, and no new ones in their...who may be induced to travel for once amongst them, to learn their language ;" or, as at present, to make a book, and talk patriotically, on his return.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 페이지
...Lives on the laboura of this Lord of all. Pope. The families of farmers live in lililí and Hastiness, without a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hogtty. Swift. They slung up one of their largest hogiheaA; I drank it off.; for it did not hold half... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 페이지
...old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them: these indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator who comes for a short time only to learn the... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1836 - 136 페이지
...the kingdom, the old seats of the nobility in ruins, and no new ones in their stead, the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hogsty to receive them. These, indeed, may be comfortable sights to an English spectator, who comes for a short time only to learn... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 페이지
...old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them: these indeed may be comfortable sights to an English spectator who comes for a short time only to learn the... | |
 | 1840 - 588 페이지
...prevailed in most parts of the kingdom ; and the families of farmers who pay great rents, whilst they live upon buttermilk and potatoes, without a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a house as convenient as an English hog-stye" Is there any reasonable person who, after having perused what... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 페이지
...old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and...convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them. These indeed may be a comfortable sight to an English spectator, who comes for a short time, only to learn... | |
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The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the people; the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom; the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead; the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living... 
