Phrase by 'Lady Gregory'
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistLove , Soul , Childhood , Grief
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistTime , Hope , Bible , Childhood
It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistDay , Nothing , Men , Bag
It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistPeople , Men , Some , High
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistNew , Old , Change , Dress
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistBetter , Man , Great , Poetry
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistWho , Old , Battle , Use
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistTime , World , Death , Sun
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistMusic , Good , Man , Great
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
Author: Lady Gregory - Irish DramatistEarth , Kindness , Found , Heaven
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