| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 pages
...there : 1 have a notion there is never a good walk in Ireland *. Do you find all places without trees ? Pray observe the inhabitants about Wexford ; they...; see what they have particular in their manners, names, and language : magpies have been always there, and no where else in Ireland f, till of late... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 452 pages
...there : 1 have a notion there is never a good walk in Ireland *. Do you find all places without trees ? Pray observe the inhabitants about Wexford ; they...; see what they have particular in their manners, names, and language : magpies have been always there, and no where else in Ireland f, till of late... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...inhabitants about Wexford ; they are old English ; sec what they have particular in their manners, names, aud language. Magpies have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of late years. They say the cocks and dogs go to sleep at noon, and so do the peuple. Write your travels, and bring... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...hither by a strong wind." In the " Journal to Stella," Dean Swift makes allusion to the same bird : " Pray observe the inhabitants about Wexford ; they...and language. Magpies have been always there, and no where else in Ireland, till of late years." Mr. Ogilby's commentary (as given by Mr. Yarrell) on... | |
| John Forster - Authors - 1875 - 524 pages
...there. I have ' a notion there is never a good walk in Ireland. Do you find ' all places without trees ? Pray observe the inhabitants ' about Wexford : they...English : see what they have ' particular in their manner, names, and language. Magpies ' have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of... | |
| John Forster - Authors - 1875 - 530 pages
...there. I have ' a notion there is never a good walk in Ireland. Do you find ' all places without trees ? Pray observe the inhabitants ' about Wexford : they are old English : see what they have What to do ' particular in their manner, names, and language. Magpies ' have been always there, and... | |
| John Forster - 1876 - 498 pages
...about Wexford : they are old tbere' English : see what they have particular in their manner, names, and language. Magpies have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of late years. They say the cocks and dogs go to sleep at noon, and so do the people. Write your travels." " Don't... | |
| John Forster - 1876 - 504 pages
...about Wexford : they are old there- . English : see what they have particular in their manner, names, and language. Magpies have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of late years. They say the cocks and dogs go to sleep at noon, and so do the people. Write your travels." " Don't... | |
| English periodicals - 1891 - 556 pages
...is lifted upon a vastly different scene, when Dean Swift, writing of Wexford in 1711,* notes that " Magpies have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of late years." After this the bird seems to have spread very rapidly. It was very common in Cork by 1746, and has... | |
| English periodicals - 1891 - 506 pages
...is lifted upon a vastly different scene, when Dean Swift, writing of Wexford in 1711,* notes that " Magpies have been always there, and nowhere else in Ireland, till of late years." After this the bird seems to have spread very rapidly. It was very common in Cork by 1746, and has... | |
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