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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...er in business! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishm... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...t that he or she can be. It is a psychological intimacy between people. Here we find in the understandable terms of science that feeling which poets ... ...on finds meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets,... ...ing to. If that doesn‘t happen they must find a new identity by identifying with the roots of their ancestors. Americans find comfort in their Irish,...

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...is it the World knowes not his worth better; for as the Prince of Italian poets saide of Valerius Corvinus, Non so se migior Duce o Calliero (Pet. t... ...I flatter, when I forbeare not to tell all. Yet more I must needs say, if Poets be inspired by http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/montaigne/index.htm (8 ... ... all mens hearts, If bounties hand with all her beauteous parts, Poets, or Painters would to pourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below,... ...ell tracked, would be found in their footsteps, whose verie garbage lesse Poets are noted to have gathered. Why but that Scaliger thinkes that Ficin... ...ow, he drew him with a vaile over his face. And that is thereason why our Poets faine miserable Niobe, who first having lost seven sonnes and immedi... ...rvell if we understand them not: no more doe we the Cornish, the Welch, or Irish. Yet have some boasted that they understood them, as Apollonius Thya... ...clothes. Our ancient Gaules were but slightly apparelled, no more are the Irish-men, our neighbours, in so cold a climate: which we may better judge...

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...some, Countess Bardolph, Lord Fenton, Lady Page, were perfumed bores; the Irishmen were troublemakers... The Captain of the Guard requested a dance... ...n...I remember his red beard, his cough, his scared grin. Meerie, talking Irish, blamed us, saying “there’s narra a plague in Ireland—it’s your filt... ...he read to me at the same table, eatables cleared, read me from the Greek poets, Pindar’s ode on boxing, Simonides and his Perseus imprisoned in a c... ...t an enviable record; as senator he is above re- proach. With his friendly Irish spirit, he has favored Irish immigration. With his eye on the presid... .... The White House Library Here I attempt to find sanctuary, among the poets. Now I realize that Mary is going insane. Only imbalance could bri... ...staurants are festive, I am told. Bands play “Dixie” and “Yankee Doodle,” Irish tunes, Fos- ter’s songs. Fireworks and rockets explode over the Potom... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume....

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...ny bench, Sammie caressed the black and white keys. She looked to Johnelle like an Irish lass after the pipes had called for Danny Boy. “Oh, suga... ...?” “The O’Connells are a venerable old Georgia family famous for its war heroes and poets. Statues of Black Bert O’Connell are on every town square... ...skittering through her chest. “I’ve heard about Savannah’s bashes all my life. The Irish in County Cork are green with envy over your St. Paddy’s D...

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...ur visited Iceland and conquered its inhabitants, which were said to have been Irish. This, like other traditions, however, is scarcely to be credited... ...here is considerable proof which historians cannot wholly ignore that both the Irish and the Welsh made expeditions to America in about the seventh ce... ... foot of man, which are the abodes of demons. One such travels up and down the Irish coast, appearing at various points once in seven years; another i... ...t known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put it on the boards with al... ...own. They were, however, sometimes visited even by the living. St. Brandan, an Irish monk, started to explore them in a phantom boat, and after sailin... ...red years before; a few Englishmen, fugitives from their native country; a few Irishmen from Galway, who had come to Spain in the ships which constant...

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... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...in Europe, behind Ireland, France, the Czech Republic and the UK. And the Irish are the most church going in Europe. Of course the French and the Cze... ...he social welfare benefits were not reduced and were often increased. The Irish taxation model has shifted from taxing labor to taxing consumption. I... ... 21%, but it is still below the Nordic countries level of 25%. ―The Irish approach is now seen as the most efficient. It surpassed all other EU... ...ver 70. Parishes that once had two or three priests now may have none. The Irish connection has all but dried up. When I grew up two of our three pri... ... reflect needs, particularly economic needs. Cheap labor, like slaves and Irishmen, are no longer needed because machines do the work. The needs now...

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... and top of the morning to you!" She looked toward this strange Southern and Irish sound and saw her son walking back and forth on stilts before the k... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad...

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...Joe" Medley Banjo Club PART II • I ''A Summer Lullaby Gibson Glee Club II "Irish Hearts" Evans Mandolin Club III "My Lady Chloe" Glee Club IV •William... ...agination, nourished doubtless by a loving familiarity of the best English poets. While in n degree imitative, the imitation is none the less creditab... ...esent will join in the singing of college songs. Butler, '08. will give an Irish monologue and B. E. Johnson, '11, a reading. Pipe to- bacco will be s...

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...The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems s...

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............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ... ill temper. I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad poets. What we call a genius, is hard to be distinguished by a man himself ... ...die of themselves; and a memento mori to some of my vain cotemporaries the poets, to teach them that, when real merit is wanting, it avails nothing to... ...e entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. 78 ‘Harp:’ the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c. 79 ‘Prologues:’ Dryden used to se... ...e Chartres, Out-cant old Esdras, or out-drink his heir, Out-usure Jews, or Irishmen out-swear; Wicked as pages, who in early years Act sins which Pris...

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...ing hours in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poe... ...nough to be his mother,” said Mrs. Mackinnon. “What does that matter to an Irishman?” said Mackinnon. “Besides, I doubt if there is more than five yea... ...vening, for Mrs. Talboys had 15 Anthony Trollope been urging on the young Irishman her counsels respect- ing his domestic troubles. Sir Cresswell Cre... ...om. I believe that he really did love her, in his easy, eager, susceptible Irish way. That he would get over the little episode without any serious in... ...en it was that she bade O’Brien “Fill high the bowl with Samian wine.” The Irishman took her at her word, and she raised the bumper, and waved it over... ...ited in the matter,— but not proud of having excited the admiration of her Irish lover. She was proud of her own subsequent con- duct, and gave hersel...

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...ady of high distinction for wit and beauty, the daughter of an illustrious Irish House, came under the shadow of a calumny. It has latterly been exam-... ...shamed of his wonderment, and accounts for it by ‘not having known she was Irish.’ She ‘turns out to be Dan Merion’s daughter.’ We may assume that he ... ...eing their parts, until later, after the breach, when the English- man and Irishwoman resumed a certain resemblance to the yoked Islands. Henry Wilmer... .... She held a brief for her beloved Ireland. She closes a dis- cussion upon Irish agitation by saying rather neatly: ‘You have taught them it is Englis... ..., tries him with water-gruel to prove him sane. 11 George Meredith Of the Irish priest (and she was not of his retinue), when he was deemed a revolut... ...n…. ‘I could call him my poet also,’ Mr. Redworth agreed with her taste in poets. ‘His letters are among the best ever writ- ten—or ever published: th... ...onth to have sight of an Irish Beauty …. ‘Think war the finest subject for poets?’ he exclaimed. ‘Flatly no: I don’t think it. I think exactly the rev... ...she wished to see that he held an image of Diana:—surely a woman to kindle poets and heroes, the princes of the race; and it was a curious perversity ... ... our flying minds cannot contain a protracted description. That is why the poets, who spring imagination with a word or a phrase, paint lasting pictur...

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...ce raised the idea of woman from the mire it was plunged into by the comic poets, or rather satiric dramatists, of the middle period of Greek Comedy p... ...f its due reward in Clouds and Birds, his po- sition as chief of the comic poets of his age was unchallenged. Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristo... ...e have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. A singular ill fate befell th... ... it may be said that Menander and Moliere stand alone spe- cially as comic poets of the feelings and the idea. In each of them there is a conception o... ...ant witty women have the tongue of Celimene. The reason is, that these two poets idealized upon life: the foundation of their types is real and in the... ...er him with the mantle of the Anti-Jacobin, adding (that there may be some Irish in him) a dash of Grattan, before he is in motion. But such efforts a...

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...hee more barbarous; thy study of humanity more inhuman; thy converse among poets more grovel ling, miry, and dull. All arts of civilising others rend... ...lt on t’other sex. That modern love is no such thing As what those ancient poets sing; A fire celestial, chaste, refined, Conceived and kindled in the... ... morrow, ere the setting sun, She’d all undo that she had done. But in the poets we may find A wholesome law, time out of mind, Had been confirmed by ... ...w, this is Stella’s case in fact, An angel’s face, a little cracked (Could poets, or could painters fix How angels look at, thirty six): This drew us ... ...alf untold. But to say truth, such dulness reigns Through the whole set of Irish Deans; I’m daily stunned with such a medley, Dean W , Dean D l, and D... ...4 As when a beauteous nymph decays, We say she’s past her dancing days; So poets lose their feet by time, And can no longer dance in rhyme. Your annua... ...hinkers; among whom Toland, the great oracle of the Anti Christians, is an Irish priest, the son of an Irish priest; and the most learned and ingeniou...

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...gue; and myself running up and down this ladder, like any fatigue party of Irish hodmen, to the top of any Babel which my wretched admirer might choos... ...Wellington himself, in the earlier part of his career, when sitting in the Irish House of Commons, was always known to the Irish journals as Captain W... ...n my mother, in company with his son-in-law, Mr. Wilkins, as did a certain Irish Colonel Bowes, who had sons at the school, requesting earnestly, in t... ...ed, I knew, and I know that, had I chosen to enlist amongst the soi disant poets of the day ,—amongst those, I mean, who, by mere force of talent and ... ...I also could have taken and sustained a place taliter qualiter amongst the poets of the time. Why not then? Simply because I knew that me, as them, wo... ...and legitimate diction of genuine emotion. Rarely, indeed, are the reputed poets of any age men who groan, like prophets, under the burden of a messag... ...uction. But it remained to both of us a lasting mystery. This tutor was an Irishman, of Trinity College, Dublin, and, I believe, of considerable prete... ...d infalli- bly have supposed him mad; she would have written so to all her Irish friends, and would have commended the poor gentleman to the care of h...

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...n our subject when and wherever we can lay hold of him. For Jews, sailors, Irishmen, Hessian boots, little boys, beadles, policemen, tall life-guardsm... ...mer drawing we see Englishmen laughing at the troops of the line, here are Irishmen giggling at the militia. We have said that our artist has a great ... ...e know not if Mr. Cruikshank has ever had any such good luck as to see the Irish in Ireland itself, but he certainly has obtained a knowledge of their... ...preach upon? There is not a broken nose in the room that is not thoroughly Irish. We have then a couple of compositions treated in a graver manner, as... .... We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney char- acter; English country character is quite... ...t of the paint- ers and tell us who are they? How many among these men are POETS (makers), possessing the faculty to create, the great- est among the ...

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...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... ...teenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they were not... ...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... ...eally exist in the Grecian drama? Even Sophocles, who, of the three tragic poets surviving from the wrecks of the Athenian stage, is reputed the supre... ...h broods over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied t... ...r the general ‘setting’ of this Theban jewel. Creon, whom the Greek tragic poets take delight in describing as a villain, has very little more to do (... ...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...

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...ils. As a narrator he has the tendency to garrulity, which few medi aeval poets altogether escaped, but he is by no means with out conversational ch... ...ound in the lines of Wace. Uther Pendragon, in a deadly battle against the Irish invaders under Gillomar and Pascent, slays Gillomar, then overtakes P... ...ylls of the King , Glasgow, 1894. H. MAYNADIER, The Arthur of the English Poets , Boston and New York, 1907. G. PARIS, Histoire littéraire de la Fra... ...d therefore to pass the sea with fifteen thousand men to make war upon the Irish, and to ease them of the stones. Uther, at his own desire, was chosen... ...hat strangers were arrayed in his land, he assembled his household and the Irish, and menaced them proudly, seeking to chase them from the realm. Afte... ...ng them their mirth and their song. For mad it seemed in the eyes of these Irish that men should pain themselves so grievously by land and sea to gain... ... heart, but at your peril you seek to do him mischief with your hands. The Irish mocked and menaced the stranger, and sought him until they found. The...

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...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ...’ve told you fifty times,’ They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, ‘I’ve written fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they... ... The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, And Lord Mount Coffeehouse, the Irish peer, Who kill’d himself for love (with wine) last year. ‘Have ... ...or ‘t is just One should not rail without a decent cause: There was an Irish lady, to whose bust I ne’er saw justice done, and yet she was ... ...nd for foe; But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice. Lambro presented, and one instant more Had st... ...e When freed from bonds (which are of no great use After all), or like Irish at a fair, Their guards being gone, and as it were a truce Es... ...or pay or politics. He was what Erin calls, in her sublime Old Erse or Irish, or it may be Punic (The antiquarians who can settle time, Wh...

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...them, but was not lucky. First off, I flew thirty yards, and then fouled an Irishman and brought him down — brought us both down, in fact. Next, I ha... ...piter and other worlds in our own system, but the most celebrated were three poets, Saa, Bo and Soof, from great planets in three different and very r... ...had some talk with one Langland and a man by the name of Chaucer — old time poets — but it was no use, I couldn’t quite understand them, and they cou... ... a mixture of all three; back of them, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and billions of ...