Barry Lyndon

There was no Court in Europe at which strangers were more welcome than at that of the noble Duke of X—

I then fell, and among whom I was made the sharer in a very strange and tragical adventure.

And I say this to let parents know the value of it; for though I have met more learned book-worms in the world, especially a great hulking, clumsy, blear-eyed old doctor, whom they called Johnson,

I may say for myself that Redmond Barry has seldom found his equal. 'Sir,

The fact was, that at taw, prison-bars, or boxing, I was at the head of the school, but could not be brought to excel in the classics

In the matter of book-learning, I had always an uncommon taste for reading plays and novels, as the best part of a gentleman's polite education, and never let a pedlar pass the village, if I had a penny, without having a ballad or two from him

I had a quick ear and a fine voice, which my mother cultivated to the best of her power,

Mick, I, English Redmond,

A man of sixty may, however, say what he was at fourteen without much vanity, and I must say I think there was some cause for my mother's opinion.

A man of sixty may, however, say what he was at fourteen without much vanity, and I must say I think there was some cause for my mother's opinion.