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...e are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets, witch doctors, noveli... ...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... ...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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...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... ...hantom Vessel is the best known and most poetical of all the nautical legends. Novelists have used it, poets have embellished it, dramatists have put ... ...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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...rs in discussing Italian politics. We were, most of us, paint- ers, poets, novelists, or sculptors;—perhaps I should say would-be painters, poets, nov... ...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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...l we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, some- times a bit of fish, and sometimes risso... ...o create a popularity. There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as ‘Irish Stew,’ three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young... ...; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and nurtured, but ashamed to own his country... ...and began to draw together, by inscrutable magnetisms, upon the decks. There were Scots and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good ... ..., the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received w... ...e known to think it the best of Sir Walter’s by nearly as much as Sir Walter is the best of novelists. Perhaps Mr. Lang is right, and our first friend...

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... money to my tailor and every- body else who would trust me, possessing an Irish brogue, and my full pay of 120l. a year. I need not say that with all... ...ther intended her for a Member of Council at least, and not for a beggarly Irish ensign. It was, however, my fate to make the passage to India (on boa... ... “A cornet!” said he, in a voice choking with emotion; “a pitiful beggarly Irish cornet aspire to the hand of Julia Jowler! Gag—Gahagan, are you mad, ... ...our third brother, the Chef de Bataillon, Count Godfrey Gahagan, was in my Irish Brigade.” Gahagan. “Sire, it is true. He and my countrymen in your Ma... ...nd beat Wellington back. It was the only time, as your Majesty knows, that Irishmen and Englishmen were beaten in that war.” Napoleon (looking as if h... ...his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 46 Major Gahag...

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...s in his shirt-sleeves, trimming the garden-plot, shrank back alarmed. The Irish servant-lass rushed up from the kitchen and smiled a “God bless you.”... ...righton, and about that infernal traitor Bonaparty, and the war; until the Irish maid-servant came with a plate and a bottle of wine, from which the o... ...her dishes were washed and her curl-papers removed, by Miss Flannigan, the Irish servant), there to take measures for the preparing of a mag- nificent... ...splendid amongst these, and she had a curl on her fore- head, and a set of Irish diamonds and Cairngorms, which out- shone all the decorations in the ... ...ome: you will have her for a friend, and we may get rid now of this damn’d Irishwoman.” To this Amelia did not answer, yes or no: and how do we know w... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared...

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...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair – V olum... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...ht before, so wan, so lifeless, so careless of all round about. The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face... ...t on, Mrs. Sedley sat and whimpered a great deal in a pew, consoled by the Irish 213 Thackeray maid-servant and Mrs. Clapp from the lodgings. Old Sed...

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...9 Melville squaws; Northern speculators and Eastern philosophers; English, Irish, German, Scotch, Danes; Santa Fé traders in striped blankets, and Bro... ...ge. See what sad work they make of it, who, ignorant of this, flame out in Irish enthusiasm and with Irish sincerity, to a bene- factor, who, if a man... ...distrust, deep distrust, un- derlies it; and ten thousand strong, like the Irish Rebellion, breaks out in you now. That wine, good me, should do it! U... ...t in obscurity, but transparency, which, indeed, is the practice with most novelists, and is, perhaps, in certain cases, someway felt to be a kind of ... ...made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching this point... ...y. I speak from fifteen years’ experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that China boy se...

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...rine: A Story “‘Faith, Major, you giv him his billyful,’ roared out a long Irish unattached ensign, that I had treated with many a glass of Nantz at t... ...the battle of Almanza, and bad luck to us.’ “Y ou see, my dear, that these Irish have the strongest imagi- nations in the world; and that I had actual... ...lue upon his right arm’ (and there it is sure enough). ‘Y onder swaggering Irishman may be his ac- complice for what I know; but I will have no dealin... ...th a very long red nose, and red hair; grey eyes, and speaks with a strong Irish accent; is the first-cousin of the Duke of Leinster, and in constant ... ...crimes was the famous high- wayman, Captain Macshane, so well known as the Irish Fire- eater. “The Captain came to the ground in a fine white lawn shi... ...onged to have colds in order to partake of the remedy. Some of our popular novelists have compounded their drugs in a similar way, and made them so pa...

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...ho had sat still and dormant by the table was in reality a keen and bitter Irish Roman Catholic. Then the question, a question-begging question, was p... ...er jolly and familiar, something like a very good and successful French or Irish priest, something that came easily and readily into their homes and l... ...that indeed is the unfortunate aspect of the whole af- fair.” And then the Irish Catholic came down on him…. 3 3 3 3 3 How the bishop awakened in the ... ...y that trails a scurril- ous fringe. “Who was that young man with a strong Irish accent— who contradicted me so suddenly?” he asked. “The dark young m... ... tolerate the world as it is if it were not for smoking and drinking. Even novelists have their moments of lucidity. Certainly these things soothe the...

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...end, a fraction of his debt, and gets his discharge. “B’s” feelings, as we novelists used to say, are “better imagined than described”; he does his be... ...d, unless it is under a cantonal system, and that the only solution of the Irish difficulty along the belt between Ulster and Catholic Ireland lies in... ... there is nothing to reciprocate the sympathy and pride that En- glish and Irish republicans and radicals feel for the States. Few Americans realise t...

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...not of the confraternity. The sentimental old maid is a commonplace of the novelists; and he must be rather a poor sort of human being, to be sure, wh... ...h Gipsies. “It is said,” I find on p. 7, “that those who can converse with Irish peasants in their own native tongue form far higher opinions of their... ... this planet, which already embraces the pretty soldier and the terrifying Irish beggarman, is, or is not, the child to expect a Bluebeard or a Cormor...

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...ut cakes that were lying neglected in a plate near him, and certainly (for novelists have the privilege of knowing everything) he thought a great deal... ...ure that she wasn’t even jealous. Mr. Jos was away, being be- sieged by an Irish widow at Cheltenham. Amelia had the house to herself—ah! too much to ... ...nk his claret; he played his rubber; he told his Indian sto- ries, and the Irish widow consoled and flattered him as usual. 166 V anity Fair His pres... ...e’s dying,” William Dobbin said—and could speak no more. There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who performed all the duties of the little house where ... ...place in mere story-books, and we are not going (after the fashion of some novelists of the present day) to cajole the.public into a sermon, when it i... ...ht before, so wan, so lifeless, so careless of all round about. The honest Irish maid-servant, delighted with the change, asked leave to kiss the face... ...t on, Mrs. Sedley sat and whimpered a great deal in a pew, consoled by the Irish 213 Thackeray maid-servant and Mrs. Clapp from the lodgings. Old Sed... ...XXX “The Girl I Left Behind Me” WE DO NOT CLAIM to rank among the military novelists. Our place is with the non-combatants. When the decks are cleared...

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...ess- ing of her own womanly charms, her delightful society, and her sweet, Irish style of innocent gayety. No transformation that ever legends or roma... ...ure of Lady Massey, than a mighty cloud seemed to roll away from the young Irishman’s brow. At this time it happened, and indeed it often happened, th... ... on the stage leading into Lichfield; there was no con- spiracy, as in our Irish case; one horse only out of the four was the criminal; and, according... ... report their immediate changes. I won him easily to an interest in my own Irish experiences, so fresh, and in parts so grotesque, wilder also by much... ...on a fund of archæologic memorabilia, connecting what interested him as an Irishman in general with what most interested him as the head of a particul... ...pted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fielding commenced the practice of systematically traducing... ...fty years back (though manifestly at utter war, in the portraitures of our novelists, with the realities handed down to us by our Parliamentary annals... ...vailing conception of his order, as sketched by satiric and often ignorant novelists, he might be regarded, in all that concerned the liberalization o...

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...d back to M. Pelet’s. “Look at this little woman; is she like the women of novelists and romancers? To read of female character as de- picted in Poetr... ...ot like her thus, so I cut short the tete-a-tete and departed. CHAPTER XIX NOVELISTS SHOULD NEVER allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.... ... by a mark of preference; one girl of noble blood she loved dearly—a young Irish baroness —lady Catherine —; but it was for her enthusiastic heart and...

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... his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T... ... but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king—there were thirty What Is Man and Other Ess... ...ter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists. Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied ... ...toms of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making mistakes as to the laws of m... ...WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to the first Tudors—a l...

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... have been sent on exhi- bition as an example to young literary men. Here is how to learn to write, might be the motto. You should have seen us; the v... ...he most heroic industry. So far, I have managed to please the jour- nalists. But I am a fictitious article and have long known it. I am read by journa...

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...e betwixt the armies of the Bruce and MacDougal of Lorn.] Musing, like the Irish lady in the song, “upon things which are long enough a-gone,” [This i... ...e, in some degree worn out by the incessant labour of modern romancers and novelists, who, finding in those remote regions primitive habits and manner...

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...arry? Plenty of money under her father’s will. Charming girl.” He consumed Irish stew for some moments. “Married already,” he said, with his mouth ful... ...il in Marylebone. So the talk went on, and presently they were criticising novelists, and certain daring essays of Wilkins got their due share of atte...

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...w that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors, were as sought after a... ...il- ian youth with eyes like Nastasia’s offered to shine his boots, and an Irish matron to sell him peaches; and every few mo- ments the doors opened ...

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...of taking it. There are methods of so-called presentation, I believe among novelists who have appeared to flourish—that offer the situation as indiffe... ...reemen,” Henrietta retorted. “They’re the companions of their servants—the Irish chambermaid and the negro waiter. They share their work.” “Do you cal... .... I know no other. But we have sisters of other countries—English, German, Irish. They all speak their proper language.” The gentleman gave a smile. “... ...gentleman gave a smile. “Has my daughter been under the care of one of the Irish ladies?” And then, as he saw that his visitors suspected a joke, thou...

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...garding the value of smiles. There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks’s parody of Mark Antony’s funeral oratio... ... from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players. She knew con- fusedly that a man named Gordon Craig had pain... ...e Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the board them... ... Street taught Sunday School. Four “entertainers” who told Jewish stories, Irish sto- ries, German stories, Chinese stories, and Tennessee moun- taine...

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...new and important acquisition to the English crown. Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince the... ...ndants could not resist the tempta- tion of pulling the long beards of the Irish chieftains; a conduct which, as might have been expected, was highly ... ...black vault of Denure, a strong fortalice, built on a rock overhanging the Irish channel, where to execute leases and conveyances of the whole churche... ... obvious expedient. The name of Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff, th...

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...onsense! There’s no so much harm in being young, here and there. I knew an Irish lady was married at fourteen. Her daughter married close over fourtee... ...priate illustrations to the ballad-monger’s repertory. Clare sang a little Irish air. Her duty done, she marched from the piano. Mothers are rarely de... ... attribute their successes and reverses. They are useful impersonations to novelists; but my opinion is sufficiently high of flesh and blood to believ...

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...intimated that she was secretly engaged to that popular character whom the novelists and versifiers call Another, and that such a marriage would make ... ...ciously with his dessert-knife. Mortimer proceeds. ‘We must now return, as novelists say, and as we all wish they wouldn’t, to the man from Somewhere.... ...‘There was likewise,’ resumed Wegg, ‘a pair of trestles, for which alone a Irish person, who was deemed a judge of trestles, 780 Our Mutual Friend of...

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... an old woman fully informed as to the unknown beauty’s affairs. Hitherto, novelists of manners have placed on the stage a great many usurers; but the... ... at once dubbed in French slang as the pig’s orange (Orange a Cochons)[the Irish have called them bog oranges]. Banknotes are invented; the “mob” at o...

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...t. I had myself to see Rothschild in Eaton Place this morn- ing, about the Irish loan, of which I have taken three millions: and as I wanted to walk, ... ...oundiaoul nabochlish,” said the French officer, with a curse in the purest Irish. It was lucky I stopped laughing time enough to bid Lanty hold his ha... ... be hot enough work for you ere long.” The honest fellows answered with an Irish cheer. I saw that it affected our prisoner. “Countryman,” said I, “I ... ...w that it affected our prisoner. “Countryman,” said I, “I know you; but an Irishman was never a traitor.” “Taisez-vous!” said he, putting his finger t... ...nd as a tear bedimmed his eye. It was, then, the celebrated colonel of the Irish Brigade, cre- ated a Marquis by Napoleon on the field of Austerlitz! ... ... his Indian characters. Bismillah, Barikallah, and so on, according to the novelists, form the very essence of East- ern conversation. 174 Thackeray ...

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...high Alps or along the Riviera. England is rap- idly developing the former Irish grievance of an absentee propertied class. It is only now by the most... ...en such a thing as a novel in England. This has been recognised equally by novelists, novel-readers, and the people who wouldn’t read novels under any... ...ns. You may say that is demanding more insight and power in our novels and novelists than we can possibly hope to find in them. So much the worse for ... ...in his method of treatment; or rather, if I may presume to speak for other novelists, I would say it is not so much a demand we make as an intention w... ...s he gets all his particular formulae ac- cepted is a pervert, a victim of Irish bad example, and unfit far decent democratic institutions … 133 H. G... ...cal pro- fession to carry out insurance legislation, in the repudiation of Irish Home Rule by Ulster, and in the steady drift of great masses of indus... ...incerely anxious, if only it could find a way, to get rid of both of them. Irish Home Rule—an issue as dead as mutton, is opposed to Tariff Reform, wh... ...s, Italians, Ruthenians, Cos- sacks, German peasants, Scandinavians, a few Irish still, im- poverished English, occasional Dutch; they halt for a mo- ...

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...rs to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle. Because constitutions can be overthrown when the ... ...f these cases exemplify what a naturally excitable people may be made, the Irish Celts afford one of the aptest examples of what they are when left to... ... Catholic hierarchy and of a sincere belief in the Catholic religion). The Irish character must be consid ered, therefore, as an unfavourable case: y... ...arious individual eminence? Like the French compared with the English, the Irish with the Swiss, the Greeks or Italians compared with the German races... ... thought, and the perfection of style, there is no inferior ity. Our best novelists in point of composition, and of the management of detail, have mo...

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.... . . . . . . . . 38 THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 THE LAMENTAT... .... . . . . . 38 THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STORIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOVELISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 THE LAMENTATION OF... .... . . 126 IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 MEN IMPROVE W... ...fort in the grave. THE DEDICATION TO A BOOK OF STO RIES SELECTED FROM THE IRISH NOV ELISTS THERE was a green branch hung with many a bell When her o... ...trong that withstood Beside the brackish waters of the Boyne James and his Irish when the Dutchman crossed; Old merchant skipper that leaped overboard... ...welcome; but a thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech, AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH I KNOW that I shall meet my fate Somewhere ...

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...ce. The application was successful, the meet- ing was held; the orator (an Irishman) came. He talked of green isles—other shores—vast Atlantic—bosom o... ...ts, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly aver that we dou... ... dimensions; but a Frenchman—a French- man in Seven Dials! Pooh! He was an Irishman. Tom King’s education had been neglected in his infancy, and as he... ...y live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Then there is an Irish labourer and his family in the back kitchen, and a jobbing man—carpet... ...t; the two-pair back will interfere with the front kitchen’s children; the Irishman comes home drunk every other night, and attacks everybody; and the... ...orms, mud and gas-lights, thick doors, and stone paving. Then, as standard novelists expressively inform us— ’all was a blank!’ and in the morning the...

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... stition to which, some of us, under the agreeable counsels of sentimental novelists, of thoughtless mercenary preachers, and ignorant and indolent do... ...ialects and many influences are contributing. From the Highlanders and the Irish, for example, the English of the South are learning the possibilities... ...tion has never found any growth in America, and has, in the persons of the Irish chiefly, been imported in an imperfect condition, only to fade. The v... ...are manipulated just as much as the elections in the least literate of the Irish constituencies.* It is not a question of accidentals, but a question ... ...fe nobility as I have sketched a Second Chamber could be drawn much as the Irish representative peers in the House of Lords are drawn from the general... ...example, the process of conversion might begin by extending the Scotch and Irish system to England, and substituting a lesser number of rep- resentati...

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...ieved that Ireland would secure secession, and that the great trust of the Irish repealers was in the moral aid which she did and would receive from A... ...e bill. In Canada the roads are very bad in comparison with the English or Irish roads; but, to make up for this, the price of forage is very low. I h... ...frontier farmers, who are nearly one-half German and nearly the other half Irish, would desert their clearings and ruin their chances of progress in t... ...d there by indus- try escape the ills to which flesh is heir. The laboring Irish in these towns eat meat seven days a week, but I have met many a labo... ... in these towns eat meat seven days a week, but I have met many a laboring Irishman among them who has wished himself back in his old cabin. Industry ... ...author of the “Scarlet Letter” I regard as certainly the first of American novelists. I know what men will say of Mr. Cooper,—and I also am an admirer...

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...here is the tone elevated, diffusive, and interjectional. Some of our best novelists patronize this tone. The words must be all in a whirl, like a hum... ...e ideas were put nearly in the same way, about a thousand years ago, by an Irish philosopher called Furrier, on account of his keeping a retail shop f... ...dent which happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the ...

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...- quence into play to save it. I vowed to serve him as St. Patrick, in the Irish chronicle, is said to have served the toad,—that is to say, “awaken h... ...leased,—but I forbear, merely personal de- tails may be left to historical novelists,- they are beneath the moral dignity of matter-of-fact. I have sa...

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...ce. The application was successful, the meet- ing was held; the orator (an Irishman) came. He talked of green isles—other shores—vast Atlantic—bosom o... ...ts, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly aver that we dou... ... dimensions; but a Frenchman—a French- man in Seven Dials! Pooh! He was an Irishman. Tom King’s education had been neglected in his infancy, and as he... ...y live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Then there is an Irish labourer and his family in the back kitchen, and a jobbing man—carpet... ...t; the two-pair back will interfere with the front kitchen’s children; the Irishman comes home drunk every other night, and attacks everybody; and the... ...orms, mud and gas-lights, thick doors, and stone paving. Then, as standard novelists expressively inform us— ’all was a blank!’ and in the morning the...

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...down, draining the meadows of Pelham, Windham, and Londonderry. The Scotch Irish settlers of the latter town, ac cording to this authority, were the ... ...ts wild musical sounds, we were kept awake by the boisterous sport of some Irish laborers on the railroad, wafted to us over the water, still unwearie... ...keep it down, and so slept comfortably. I was reminded, it is true, of the Irish children, who inquired what their neighbors did who had no door to pu... ...Scott’s novels entertain us,—we are poets and fablers and drama tists and novelists ourselves. We are continually acting a part in a more interesting...

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...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... ...188 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 The best of the present French novelists seems to me, in- comparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very ...

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... to put our best foot foremost, the wisdom of which is fully recognized by novelists, myself among the number. It can hardly be expected that any one ... ...n to a Scotch mountain. The female De Courcys were to be shipped off to an Irish castle. Mr Moffat was to go up to town to prepare his petition. Miss ...