 Iren. Because the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity; for the inconveniences which thereby do arise are much more many; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief.  The poetical works of Walter Scott - Стр. 254авторы: sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1842 - Страниц: 270
...wished to disguise himself, he could cither cut it off entirely, or so pull it over his eyes as to -uder it very hard to recognize him. This, however. is nothing...outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thlefe. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes and houses... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - Страниц: 848
...could either cut it off entirely, or so pull it over his eyes as to render it very hard to recognise f pelf, And Pߏ thief. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanycs banished from the townes and houses... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - Страниц: 968
...coat, the lineal descendant and direct representative of the ancient " mantle, serving many times as a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief," as it is described by a gentleman who wrote a book towards the close of the seventeenth... | |
 | James Logan - 1843 - Страниц: 568
...wrap it close: at all times he could use it, for " it was never heavy nor cumbersome." — " It was a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel], and an apt cloake for a thiefe."§ My opinion is, that the Irish trouse and mantle were formed like the belted... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - Страниц: 512
...in dyeing their habits. Spenser greatly censured the ancient Irish dress. He considered the cloak " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." He also strongly objects to the custom of women wearing mantles, and mentions several articles... | |
 | James Robinson Planché - 1846 - Страниц: 412
...we find Spenser strongly recommending the abolition of " the antient dress." The mantle he calls " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." He speaks of the hood " as a house against all weathers ;" and remarks that while the mantle... | |
 | Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - Страниц: 508
...in dyeing their habits. Spenser greatly censured the ancient Irish dress. He considered the cloak " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." He also strongly objects to the custom of women wearing mantles, and mentions several articles... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - Страниц: 824
...girdle ; and over all the ample frieze cloak, of which Spencer speaks so angrily — " The Irish mantle, a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, an apt cloak for a thief. . . The outlaw being, for his many crimes and villanies, banished from the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - Страниц: 602
...girdle ; and over all the ample frieze cloak, of which Spencer speaks so angrily — " The Irish mantle, a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, an apt cloak for a thief. . . . The outlaw being, for his many crimes and villanies, banished from... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 636
...girdle ; and over all the ample frieze cloak, of which Spencer speaks so angrily — " The Irish mantle, a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, an apt cloak for a thief. * * The outlaw being, for his many •rimes and villanies, banished from... | |
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