Author: David James O'DONOGHUEPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The Humour of Ireland. Selected, with Introduction and Notes, by D. J. O'Donoghue, Etc
Author: David James O'DONOGHUEPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The humour of Ireland, selected with intr. and notes by D.J. O'Donoghue
Author: David James O'DonoghuePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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The Humour of Ireland Selected, with Introduction, Biographical Index and Notes, by D.J. O'Donoghue: The Illustrations by Oliver Paque
Author: David James O'DonoghuePublisher:
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Category : Irish wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Humour of Ireland
Author: David James O'DonoghuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irish wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Humour of Ireland
Author: David James O'DonoghuePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295474240
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Humour Of Ireland: Selected, With Introduction, Biographical Index And Notes; Humour Series David James O'Donoghue Oliver Paque The Walter Scott Publishing Co., ltd., 1908 Humor; General; Humor / General; Irish wit and humor
The Humour of Holland
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465562753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
There appears to be an idea abroad to the effect that the “Humour of Holland” could be most satisfactorily dealt with in a chapter resembling the famous one “Of Snakes in Ireland.” As the average English reader, in the most favourable instances, knows little more of Dutch literature than a name or two (Rembrandt has introduced us to “the poet Vondel,” and if Southey were not so little read in these days Bilderdijk and Cats would not be so unfamiliar), the subject offers a free field to the constructive imagination. Yet even so, one would think it must be obvious that the nation which has produced a Teniers, a Jan Steen, and—in some of his moods—a Rembrandt, could not be entirely destitute of humour. The estimate of its quality may be a question of taste; but—though many people practically do adopt this form of logic—we cannot make the fact of our not finding it to our liking a ground for denying its existence. Of course, before determining what the humour of a nation is like, we need to know what is that nation’s intellectual bent as a whole, and what forces have been at work to determine its character. On this point we may quote a paragraph or two from a Dutch writer, J. H. Hooijer, whom we shall meet again in the course of these pages. He is describing a village in North Holland, in the heart of the fat meadow-lands, famous for the production of Dutch cheeses. “The same village which you find so depressing this November day,—so damp, so clammy, so dripping with water,—makes a very different impression when Spring, with full hands, has showered her blossom-snow over the orchards, or in the autumn, when the trees are hanging full of golden pears or rosy apples. Greener meadow-land is nowhere on earth, unless it be in the Emerald Isle itself. The rich green pastures have velvety lights in the sunshine, and the splendid cattle—their dappled skins smooth and shining as silk—show out to advantage against it—colour on colour. At such times there is a glow of colour in the whole landscape, which, strange as it may sound, reminds one of the South,—a glow one might almost think was stolen from the palettes of the Old Masters. Every breath you draw is perfumed with new milk and flowers, mingled with the salt smell of the sea. There is a fulness of outward life—a bubbling up and overflowing of vital juices,—for which they had an eye and a heart, those great old realists. The man who despises a rich clover pasture, speckled here and there with white-fleeced sheep; who cannot spare a look for the magnificent horned cattle that stand staring at you, with dreamy, half-sad gaze, over the fence, while Geertje’s black eyes flash at you from behind the milking-pail,—well, he need not come to North Holland. Intellects of this sort, exclusively devoted to the contemplation of the sublime, will find everything ugly in these parts. To such an one our Old Masters have nothing to say; for him, Paul Potter’s art is a mere waste of time, and many a racy bit of Vondel trivial nonsense. Happily the cheery sun is of another mind, and his smile falls well-pleased on the endless emerald plain. He nurses it, feeds it, warms it,—he sweetens the blades of grass for the palate of the pampered cow. And sometimes, just before setting, he draws along the horizon, with purple finger, broad streaks of crimson fire, and then the dykes flame out like ruby bands winding over the green velvet robe of the earth, and you wish for the power of wielding the brush, so as to throw on canvas what one might almost call these brutal effects of colour.”
Ibsen's Prose Dramas
Author: Henrik IbsenProperty
Author: Charles LetourneauPublisher:
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Category : Property
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Man and Woman
Author: Havelock EllisPublisher:
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Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Author: Henrik Ibsen