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Sebright, Paul (1824)
Adventure; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Cheriton, Kent; Normandy;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
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narrator
Dialect Features:Codeswitch, Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Codeswitch, Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
This one too could restrain his voice no longer. -- " Faidth , madam, my lard ," cried this idler, "it would be a mighty great pleasure to me to have the hanour to guide your lardship, for I know very well that monsieur le capitaine manes me."
"Are you a sailor?" asked madame, in nearly the same language.
" Is it if I'm a sailor you ask , madam, my lard ?" inquired the same one. " Faidth I'm a sailor too, and that I have bane ever since I was barn . And a little more for your comfort, I am of you own dare country, and that cannot be any other than Ireland, I warrant."
This was a presumption, for none of us had seen a great deal of Ireland, though what we had seen we had much loved. -- "Well then," said madame, you shall be our pilot to -- what do you call the place?"
"Is it the place, my lard ?" inquired the sailor. " Troth , that is called Fecamp, and a most ilegant ville it is for a little out-of-the-way place. You will find there, your hanour , a wanderful abbey, with a swate little chapel to the Holy Virgin, that hardly ever suffers a poor soul to be lost in the sea. Ainsi, monsieur capitaine, je vais vous quitter. Je me chargerai du soin de madame . Madam, I am at your sarvice , and to Fecamp, and plase your hanour , my lard , I consave myself your pilot."
Thus this fresh pilot with the same facility looked, and spoke, and acted. Now English, now French, formed for action, but in love with idleness; [...]
(Vol. 1,p. 204-204)"Are you a sailor?" asked madame, in nearly the same language.
" Is it if I'm a sailor you ask , madam, my lard ?" inquired the same one. " Faidth I'm a sailor too, and that I have bane ever since I was barn . And a little more for your comfort, I am of you own dare country, and that cannot be any other than Ireland, I warrant."
This was a presumption, for none of us had seen a great deal of Ireland, though what we had seen we had much loved. -- "Well then," said madame, you shall be our pilot to -- what do you call the place?"
"Is it the place, my lard ?" inquired the sailor. " Troth , that is called Fecamp, and a most ilegant ville it is for a little out-of-the-way place. You will find there, your hanour , a wanderful abbey, with a swate little chapel to the Holy Virgin, that hardly ever suffers a poor soul to be lost in the sea. Ainsi, monsieur capitaine, je vais vous quitter. Je me chargerai du soin de madame . Madam, I am at your sarvice , and to Fecamp, and plase your hanour , my lard , I consave myself your pilot."
Thus this fresh pilot with the same facility looked, and spoke, and acted. Now English, now French, formed for action, but in love with idleness; [...]
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Sebright, Paul (1824)
Adventure; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Cheriton, Kent; Normandy;
Dialect Speakers
2.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Codeswitch, Discourse Marker, Grammar, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Codeswitch, Discourse Marker, Grammar, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
"Well, and your age; that cannot be much, I imagine?" observed madame d'Osterley.
" Exparience is by yares , madame, I am not very yang , for mighty ill-treated I have been."
"But now -- now," continued madame, curious to know the degree of Liffey's prosperity, "but now, after your great difficulties --"
The word did not suit Liffey; he fancied that the great came mockingly. -- "Your pardon, madame, my lard -- je ne voudrais pas -- I mane I would not that your hanour should misunderstand me. My trables were all sent me, and I found it my duty to bear them. They were grate enough for one; but he who is ignorant of all trable , would think very little of mine, were I to endeavour to count them."
"It is perfectly true, very just, Lif -- Liffey, I think you are called?" observed madame.
"Liffey O'Paole is my name, and plase your ladyship; it came down from my grandfather, who came down -- humph! -- from the flood, I belave . Liffey, your hanour , is taken from the ilegant river of Dublin, and Paole comes from -- faidth , I don't know, but from some paol or another, I fancy."
"That is very probable," said madame. "So then, Liffey O'Paole, you have entirely quitted your country, and are become a resident of France?" " Why , resident, if you plase , my lady," answered Liffey; "for it would be an indacent thing for a man not to reside with his wife, the poor cratur !"
[...]
"Married?" inquired madame, with astonishment.
"By the true church, and plase your ladyship, though you may think it a very hard matter," replied Liffey.
(Vol. 1,p. 210)" Exparience is by yares , madame, I am not very yang , for mighty ill-treated I have been."
"But now -- now," continued madame, curious to know the degree of Liffey's prosperity, "but now, after your great difficulties --"
The word did not suit Liffey; he fancied that the great came mockingly. -- "Your pardon, madame, my lard -- je ne voudrais pas -- I mane I would not that your hanour should misunderstand me. My trables were all sent me, and I found it my duty to bear them. They were grate enough for one; but he who is ignorant of all trable , would think very little of mine, were I to endeavour to count them."
"It is perfectly true, very just, Lif -- Liffey, I think you are called?" observed madame.
"Liffey O'Paole is my name, and plase your ladyship; it came down from my grandfather, who came down -- humph! -- from the flood, I belave . Liffey, your hanour , is taken from the ilegant river of Dublin, and Paole comes from -- faidth , I don't know, but from some paol or another, I fancy."
"That is very probable," said madame. "So then, Liffey O'Paole, you have entirely quitted your country, and are become a resident of France?" " Why , resident, if you plase , my lady," answered Liffey; "for it would be an indacent thing for a man not to reside with his wife, the poor cratur !"
[...]
"Married?" inquired madame, with astonishment.
"By the true church, and plase your ladyship, though you may think it a very hard matter," replied Liffey.
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Sebright, Paul (1824)
Adventure; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Cheriton, Kent; Normandy;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Orthographical Contraction
"If ever there were a black saint, thou art one!" said the vicar, as he put his foot in the stirrup, and looked across the saddle upon Julius.
" Whoo ! stand still wi' thee !" cried Julius, resuming: "I should not have thought that from your worship's lips."
"Why then the thing was unlikely and thou art no saint!" rejoined the vicar, throwing over his leg, and falling with might into the saddle -- "why then I tell thee thou art no saint!"
"I shall be one, I hope, some time, an' please your reverence!" answered Julius.
(Vol. 1,p. 60-61)" Whoo ! stand still wi' thee !" cried Julius, resuming: "I should not have thought that from your worship's lips."
"Why then the thing was unlikely and thou art no saint!" rejoined the vicar, throwing over his leg, and falling with might into the saddle -- "why then I tell thee thou art no saint!"
"I shall be one, I hope, some time, an' please your reverence!" answered Julius.
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Sebright, Paul (1824)
Adventure; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Cheriton, Kent; Normandy;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction
"With service to your worship," cried Julius, "I hide from nobody."
"Why, there," resumed the vicar, "in the look and tone of that, thy lofty vindication, thou art that man of Rome, Augustus et superbus ; thou art the veritable Caesar."
" Pshaw , your reverence!"
"Do, if thou darest!" menaced the vicar. " Wilt thou presume to pshaw my reverence ? Come hither; let me confront thy falsehood! Thou sayest thou art not Caesar, nor a Whig, and that thou hidest from no man. Prim, where hast thou been?"
" A-brewing , an' service to your worship!"
(Vol. 1,p. 22)"Why, there," resumed the vicar, "in the look and tone of that, thy lofty vindication, thou art that man of Rome, Augustus et superbus ; thou art the veritable Caesar."
" Pshaw , your reverence!"
"Do, if thou darest!" menaced the vicar. " Wilt thou presume to pshaw my reverence ? Come hither; let me confront thy falsehood! Thou sayest thou art not Caesar, nor a Whig, and that thou hidest from no man. Prim, where hast thou been?"
" A-brewing , an' service to your worship!"
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Sebright, Paul (1824)
Adventure; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Cheriton, Kent; Normandy;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
"How -- what do you mean?" inquired Claude, smiling at the odd appearance of this inexplicable man; "tell me by whom else I am accompanied?"
" What , dan't you knaw me, maister Clarde ?" asked the once playfellow, and the favourite neighbour of Claude, John Cornish the younger.
"Know you!" cried Claude, his heart rising with pleasure at the voice of his early and always constant friend; [...]
" What , dan't you knaw me, maister Clarde ?" asked the once playfellow, and the favourite neighbour of Claude, John Cornish the younger.
"Know you!" cried Claude, his heart rising with pleasure at the voice of his early and always constant friend; [...]
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Hurstone, J.P. (1808)
Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Satirical; Worcester; London; Egypt;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
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narrator
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Vocabulary
" Ah! Mr. Henry," he exclaimed, " be that you? I never thought you great folks , at the Hill, were wont to rise much betimes ." [...]
" Why , my dear Mr. Henry, you look downish a bit! nothing do go cross, I hope, at the great house?"
Henry shook his head in silence.
-- " Nay ," continued the good man, "you know I'm free like with you, come tell me now what's the matter -- that bundle too --"
Our hero endeavoured now to assume a more cheerful air, and taking Stephen by the hand, he said "Nothing, my dear friend, has happened that can possibly be of any material consequence: -- conduct me to the cottage -- I am thirsty -- let me have some milk, and your curiosity shall be satisfied."
" O ," replied Stephen, "story, or no story, you shall have the milk in preference to e'er a lord in the land. But you look mortal faintish , and you've lost your fine colour and -- Ah! Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry, I did not send you in that state to Rose Hill.
The day that I worked in yon field, now nineteen years come next month , you had two cheeks more larger and redder than the big cabbage roses as you see yonder ."
Henry could not refrain from smiling at the preposterous simile of the loquacious Stephen , who now entered the cottage, informing his wife, Molly, of the visitor he had brought with him, and directing her to get some milk for him in a moment.
(Vol. 1,p. 99-102)" Why , my dear Mr. Henry, you look downish a bit! nothing do go cross, I hope, at the great house?"
Henry shook his head in silence.
-- " Nay ," continued the good man, "you know I'm free like with you, come tell me now what's the matter -- that bundle too --"
Our hero endeavoured now to assume a more cheerful air, and taking Stephen by the hand, he said "Nothing, my dear friend, has happened that can possibly be of any material consequence: -- conduct me to the cottage -- I am thirsty -- let me have some milk, and your curiosity shall be satisfied."
" O ," replied Stephen, "story, or no story, you shall have the milk in preference to e'er a lord in the land. But you look mortal faintish , and you've lost your fine colour and -- Ah! Mr. Henry, Mr. Henry, I did not send you in that state to Rose Hill.
The day that I worked in yon field, now nineteen years come next month , you had two cheeks more larger and redder than the big cabbage roses as you see yonder ."
Henry could not refrain from smiling at the preposterous simile of the loquacious Stephen , who now entered the cottage, informing his wife, Molly, of the visitor he had brought with him, and directing her to get some milk for him in a moment.
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Hurstone, J.P. (1808)
Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Satirical; Worcester; London; Egypt;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
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Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction
"My excellent friends!" exclaimed Henry, when his emotion subsiding, enabled him to speak -- "My good Stephen! my dear Molly! are you both well?"
"Tough as the old oaks," replied Stephen, "that stand by the door, and now that we see you once more, shall be as lively as lambkins. But I needn't ask you how you be , Mr. Henry; your colour is as fresh as ever, though your skin as used to be fair, is as sadly tinged as if you'd been hay-making for a month."
"No, Stephen," replied Henry; "mine has been a more painful employment. I have been gathering laurels, or rather purchasing them at the price of my feelings." " Anan ," said Stephen, who took what our hero said in a literal sense ; "strange work that too. And what might all those laurel leaves be used for, Mr. Henry?" -- "To decorate the brow of the victor, and the grave of the vanquished."
Another question from Stephen, indicative of surprise, that by such employment Henry had been enabled to appear like a gentleman, travel in a chaise and four, and so forth, brought about an explanation on the part of our hero, better suited to the understandings of the old couple, that his former tropes and metaphors.
" What , then," cried Stephen, while his eyes and those of Molly glistened, "you be a Captain! Well , if I didn't say all along you'd be somewhat great. Dickens now , why didn't you come in your regimentals, with your sword as killed so many French foreign fellows, your fierce hat, your big feather and all that, I should ha' been glad to see you rigged out."
(Vol. 1,p. 157-160)"Tough as the old oaks," replied Stephen, "that stand by the door, and now that we see you once more, shall be as lively as lambkins. But I needn't ask you how you be , Mr. Henry; your colour is as fresh as ever, though your skin as used to be fair, is as sadly tinged as if you'd been hay-making for a month."
"No, Stephen," replied Henry; "mine has been a more painful employment. I have been gathering laurels, or rather purchasing them at the price of my feelings." " Anan ," said Stephen, who took what our hero said in a literal sense ; "strange work that too. And what might all those laurel leaves be used for, Mr. Henry?" -- "To decorate the brow of the victor, and the grave of the vanquished."
Another question from Stephen, indicative of surprise, that by such employment Henry had been enabled to appear like a gentleman, travel in a chaise and four, and so forth, brought about an explanation on the part of our hero, better suited to the understandings of the old couple, that his former tropes and metaphors.
" What , then," cried Stephen, while his eyes and those of Molly glistened, "you be a Captain! Well , if I didn't say all along you'd be somewhat great. Dickens now , why didn't you come in your regimentals, with your sword as killed so many French foreign fellows, your fierce hat, your big feather and all that, I should ha' been glad to see you rigged out."
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Hurstone, J.P. (1808)
Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Satirical; Worcester; London; Egypt;
Dialect Speakers
2.
narrator
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interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
"As the Goddess of Wisdom," said a tall thin Minerva, with a scotch accent. â "I come hither to drive the fools out of this my temple."
"I am sorry we are likely then to lose the honour of your wisdomship's company," observed the Satirist.
" What mon , d' ye mean to cast reflections upon me?"
"A word in your ear, sapient Minerva," returned Sir William, adding in an audible whisper â "Do not bray too loudly, or it may be discovered that an ass is concealed beneath the lion's skin."
(Vol. 3,p. 93)"I am sorry we are likely then to lose the honour of your wisdomship's company," observed the Satirist.
" What mon , d' ye mean to cast reflections upon me?"
"A word in your ear, sapient Minerva," returned Sir William, adding in an audible whisper â "Do not bray too loudly, or it may be discovered that an ass is concealed beneath the lion's skin."
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Meeke, Mary (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; English country houses;
Dialect Speakers
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interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Orthographical Contraction
"Why no, Sir; his Lordship has been very cross all the way from Chippenham, because we did not make more haste, though he may thank his stars we did not tip him over upon the Downs, for the roads are as bad as bad can be; we have been near five hours coming these twenty miles."
"Well, but do you think I shall run any serious risk if I attempt the Devizes road on horseback? "
"Why, faith , Sir, you would be froze to death if you have nothing worse to fear; I would not go back again this evening for a guinea; and we heard at Kennet that the Devizes road was much worse than our's: but there is a carriage behind us which comes from there, 'tis my belief; if they should stop here, you will be better able to decide. I know, if I was in your place, I should think it safest to stop till morning."
(Vol. 1,p. 14)"Well, but do you think I shall run any serious risk if I attempt the Devizes road on horseback? "
"Why, faith , Sir, you would be froze to death if you have nothing worse to fear; I would not go back again this evening for a guinea; and we heard at Kennet that the Devizes road was much worse than our's: but there is a carriage behind us which comes from there, 'tis my belief; if they should stop here, you will be better able to decide. I know, if I was in your place, I should think it safest to stop till morning."
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Meeke, Mary (1800)
Biography; Courtship; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; English country houses;
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Dialect Features:Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Vocabulary
"I shall be in better spirits by and by, Mama," cried Betsey, "if you would but give me something to eat."
"What a gut do you grow!" politely observed the sister.
"I am sure I an't half so greedy as you are, Patty," was the retort courteous, while their mother asked the new comers if they chose any soup; adding, by way of tempting them to taste it, "We had a leg of mutton for dinner yesterday, and this is the liquor it was boiled in, stewed up with some split pease. I always endeavour to make the most of everything."
(Vol. 1,p. 177)"What a gut do you grow!" politely observed the sister.
"I am sure I an't half so greedy as you are, Patty," was the retort courteous, while their mother asked the new comers if they chose any soup; adding, by way of tempting them to taste it, "We had a leg of mutton for dinner yesterday, and this is the liquor it was boiled in, stewed up with some split pease. I always endeavour to make the most of everything."