| Kersti Tarien Powell - 2004 - 224 pages
...and includes a quotation from Edmund Spenser stating that this historic garment can be a "fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The coat thus implicates Thady from the beginning of his story as a potentially subversive character.... | |
| Stephen Regan - 2004 - 628 pages
...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. First, the outlaw being for his many crimes and villanies, banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
| Steven Conn - 2006 - 289 pages
...to which figures in Beckett put their greatcoats — some of them not far removed from "a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak tor a thief" — to realize that memories associated with the greatcoat were for Beckett collective... | |
| Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller, Robin G. Schulze - 2005 - 284 pages
...[versatility] doth not countervail the discommodity [camouflage] ... for [the mantle] is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief'"24 (Edgeworth citing Spenser). The editorial footnote surrounds Thady 's "stream of anecdote... | |
| Julie Nash - 2006 - 236 pages
...comment. Before including the quotation from Spenser on the greatcoat's usefulness as 'a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief (9), the editor comments that 'Spencer knew the convenience of the said mantle, as housing, bedding... | |
| Laura O'Connor - 2006 - 298 pages
...activity: "the commodity doth not countervail the discommodity ... for [the mantle] is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief" (qtd. in Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, 8). Spenser also recommends excluding Irish jurors from the judicial... | |
| 1921 - 762 pages
...undesirables to wander about at will undetected. Spenser says of the mantle that it is "a fit house for an outlaw, .a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief;" and further he says, referring to the Irish vagabond, that "he can in his mantle pass through any town... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 pages
...wisdom that branded Irish arms. " The Irish mantle should be prohibited, because it is a fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief. First, the outlaw being, for his many crimes and villainies, banished from the towns and houses of... | |
| 1925 - 656 pages
...every kind. The chief article of their attire was a mantle or plaid, which served as a " fit house for an outlaw, a meet bed for a rebel, and an apt cloak for a thief." The feuds of different septs rendered the country a constant scene of civil war, and gave excuse for... | |
| 1842 - 528 pages
...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. First, the outlaw, being for his many crimes and villanies banished from the towns and houses of honest... | |
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