| Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 512 páginas
...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... | |
| Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton Countess of Wilton - 1846 - 508 páginas
...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 páginas
...the Irish Mantle, from Spenser's " View of the State of Ireland:" — about 1595. It is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the outlaw, being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 448 páginas
...the same poet regards that favourite part of the Irish dress, the mantle : — ' It is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
| 1860 - 750 páginas
...discommoditie; for the inconveniences which thereby doe arise, are much more many ; for it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a theife. First the out-law being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the towues... | |
| 1862 - 600 páginas
...writing from Kilcoleman, urges the abolition of the ancient dress. The mantle he terms " a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thief." Spenser might be a good poet, bat if we judge from this paragraph of his penned... | |
| Nathaniel George Clark - 1863 - 238 páginas
...the Irish Mantle, from Spenser's " View of the State of Ireland:" — about 1595. It is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the out-law, being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 170 páginas
...the Irish Mantle, from Spenser's i" new of the State of Ireland :"—about 1595. It is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloke for a thiefe. First, the out-law, being for his many crimes and villanyes banished from the townes... | |
| John Johnston Kelso - 1865 - 92 páginas
...Continent. But the idea i« purely visionary. The use of the mantle — " fit house for an outlaw, meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief" — was introduced into Ireland, according to Spencer, by the " Northern nations." In the raw, cold... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...for the inconveniences which thereby do arise, are much more many (numerous) ; for it is a fit house for an out-law, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First the out-law being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
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