Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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The Irish Sketch Book of 1842 and Character Sketches ...
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Irish Sketch Book of 1842
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Irish Sketch Book of 1842; and Character Sketches
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230445663
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... and her family who may well be described here--for their like are hardly to be found on the other side of the Channel. Mrs. Pagan is a young widow who has seen better days, and that portrait over the grand mantel-piece is the picture of her husband that is gone, a handsome young man, and well to do at one time as a merchant. Hut the widow (she is as pretty, as lady-like, as kind, and as neat as ever widow could be) has little left to live upon but the rent of her lodgings and her furniture; of which we have seen the best in the drawing-room. She has three line children of her own: there is Minny, and Katey, and Patsey, and they occupy indifferently the dining-room on the ground-floor or the kitchen opposite; where in the midst of a great smoke sits an old nurse, by a copper of potatoes which is always bubbling and full. Patsey swallows quantities of them, that's clear: his cheeks are as red and shining as apples, and when he roars, you are sure that his lungs are in the finest condition. Next door to the kitchen is the pantry, and there is a bucketful of the before-mentioned fruit and a grand service of china for dinner and dessert. The kind young widow shows them with no little pride, and says with reason that there are few lodging-houses in Cork tliat can match such china as that. They are relics of the happy old times when Fagan kept his gig and horse, doubtless, and had his friends to dine--the happy prosperous days which she has exchanged for poverty and the sad black gown. Patsey, Minny, and Katey have made friends with the little English people upstairs; the elder of whom, in the course of a month, has as fine a Minister brogue as ever trolled over the lips of any born Corkagian. The old nurse carries out the whole united party to...
The Irish Sketch Book 1842
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Irish sketchbook, 1842, by mr. M.A. Titmarsh
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The Irish sketchbook of 1842 ; and, Character sketches
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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The Irish Sketch-book
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
Author: Illinois State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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A Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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