 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
...misery, a picture drawn by the terrible hand of Swift. He describes "the miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people, the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom." He says: — "Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about the aged, diseased, or... | |
 | Redcliffe N. Salaman, William Glynn Burton - Business & Economics - 1985 - 772 pages
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours. The miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people, the families of farmers who pay great rents living...filth and nastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, not a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them.... | |
 | Richard L. Bushman - History - 1992 - 298 pages
...dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. . . . The miserable dress and diet. . . of the people; the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom; the old seats of the gentry and nobility all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead; the families of farmers, who pay... | |
 | Christopher Fox - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 306 pages
...in those western and rural regions inhabited by "Tenants; who live worse than English Beggars," and "Families of Farmers, who pay great Rents, living...Potatoes, without a Shoe or Stocking to their Feet" (PW xn: 11, 10). The Drapier's invocations of a "liberty" defined in the broadest terms, as "a Blessing,... | |
 | Michael Symons - History - 2007 - 386 pages
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours. The miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people, the families of farmers who pay great rents living...filth and nastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, not a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a house so convenient as an English hog-sty to receive them.... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881 - 1082 pages
...misery, a picture drawn by the terrible hand of Swift. He describes ' the miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people, the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom.' He says : — Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about the aged, diseased, or... | |
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The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the people ; the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead... 
