...e, which did not provoke any reproaches even to a dignitary of the supreme Irish church; its own monstrosity was its excuse; mere extravagance was fel... ...a man on such a subject. I consign him to the attentions of some patriotic Irishman. Schlosser, however, is right in a graver reflection which he make... ...ty; he never forgets his mother-tongue in exotic forms, unless we may call Irish exotic; for Hibernicisms he certainly has. This merit, however, is ex... ...ut the manner how, is not exactly stated; it was in skirmish with rascally Irish ‘kernes,’ fellows that (when presented at the font of Christ for bapt... ...ght inflict a devilish blow. Such a blow, with such an unbaptized arm, the Irish villain struck; and there was an end of Wellerand de Wellesleigh. Str... ...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

...edith 1910 CHAPTER I WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND A YOUNG IRISH GENTLEMAN of the numerous clan O’Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a di... ...armies of the fields above likened its shad- owed stillness to that of his Irish home. There had this woman lived! At the name of Earlsfont she became... ...on the sound of a short laugh coming from Mr. Adister. It struck the young Irishman’s ear as injurious and scornful in relation to Captain Con; but th... ...ne. ‘It is not your intention to be an idle gentleman?’ ‘No, nor a vagrant Irishman, sir.’ ‘You propose to sit down over there?’ ‘When I’ve more brain... ... Mr. Adister pulled the arm of his chair. ‘The professions are crammed. An Irish gentleman owning land might do worse. I am in favour of some degree o... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to ...

...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...my mind of what I have read has been to awaken a livelier sympathy for the Irish; although they never had the remarkable virtues, I fear they have suf...

...my plain statement of the fundamental constitution of London society as an Irishman’s reproach to your nation. From the day I first set foot on this ... ...12 GB Shaw foreign soil I knew the value of the prosaic qualities of which Irishmen teach Englishmen to be ashamed as well as I knew the vanity of the... ...ell as I knew the vanity of the poetic qualities of which Englishmen teach Irishmen to be proud. For the Irishman instinctively dispar- ages the quali... ...to him; and the Englishman instinctively flatters the fault that makes the Irishman harmless and amusing to him. What is wrong with the prosaic Englis... ...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi... ...d baffled. At the first word that falls from him it is clear that he is an Irishman whose native intonation has clung to him through many changes of p...