[오늘의 한문장] 이계의 집 The House on the Borderland (착한문고 영어소설 106)

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[오늘의 한문장] 이계의 집 The House on the Borderland (착한문고 영어소설 106)

이계의 집

The House on the Borderland

지은이 윌리엄 호프 호지슨

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[오늘의 한문장] 배리 린든 BARRY LYNDON (착한문고 영어소설 107)

In Oliver‘s time it was too late for a chief of the name of Barry to lift up his war-cry against that of the murderous brewer. We were princes of the land no longer; our unhappy race had lost its possessions a century previously., and by the most shameful treason. This I know to be the fact;, for my mother has often told me the story, and besides had worked it in a worsted pedigree which hung up in the yellow saloon at Barryville where we lived.
- P12

[오늘의 한문장] 배리 린든 BARRY LYNDON (착한문고 영어소설 107)

Who knows, but for the fault of a woman, I might have been wearing it now? You start with incredulity. I say, why not? Had there been a gallant chief to lead my countrymen, instead or puling knaves who bent the knee to King Richard II, they might have been freemen; had there been a resolute leader to meet the murderous ruffian Oliver Cromwell, we should have shaken off the English for ever. But there was no Barry in the field against the usurper; on the contrary; ny ancestor, Simon de Bary, came over with the first-named monarch, and married the daughter of the then King of Munster, whose sons in battle he pitilessly slew.
- P12

[오늘의 한문장] 배리 린든 BARRY LYNDON (착한문고 영어소설 107)

I presume that there is no gentleman ib Europe that has not heard of the house of Barry of Barryogue, of the kingdom of Ireland, than which a more famous name is not to be found in Gwillim or D‘Hozier; and though, as a man of the world, I have learned to despise heartily the claims of some PRETENDERS to high birth who have no more genealogy than the lacquey who cleans my boots, and though I laugh to utter scorn the boasting of many of my countrymen, who are all for descending from kings of Ireland, and talk of a domain no bigger than would feed a pig as if it were a principality; yet truth compels me to assert that my family was the noblest of the island, and, perhaps, of the universal world; while their possessions, now insignificant and torn from us by war, by treachery, by the loss of time, by ancestral extravagance, by adhesion to the old faith and monarch, were formerly prodigious, and embraced many countries, at a time when Ireland was vastly more prosperous than now. I would assume the Irish crown over my coat-of- arms, but the there are so many silly pretenders to that distinction who bear it and render it common.
- P11