 | Giuseppe Mattei, Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil) - 1887 - 608 lehte
...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 men are...the assurance of the timber must defend the men from robbers. Now have we many chimneys; and yet our tender lines complain of rheums, catarrhs, poses ;... | |
 | Francis Nottidge MacNamara - 1895 - 654 lehte
...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 - 692 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 men are...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... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1999 - 518 lehte
...regarded, 'for when our houses (says he) were built of willow, then we had oaken men; but now that our houses are come to be made of oak. our men are...altogether of straw, which is a sore alteration.' But though they had 'wooden spoons,' they had nothing in the shape of a fork, but took the meat out... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 lehte
...built with willow, then had we * Melpomene, ah. 46. 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 *." St. Bernard, also, in reference to the Irish, having mentioned that Malachy O'Morgan, archbishop... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2007 - 537 lehte
...with willow, then had we * Melpomene, «h. 46. 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*." St. Bernard, also, in reference to the Irish, having mentioned that Maiachy O'Morgan, archbishop of... | |
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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... 
