I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, an...d Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains w...hat is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Galway is a blackguard place, To Cork I give my curse,... Tralee is bad enough, But Limerick is worse. Which is worst I cannot tell, They're everyone so filthy, But of the towns which I have seen Worst luck to Clonakilty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I change, and so do women too; But I reflect--which women seldom do.... Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil doth proceed; That drains your purse, that burns your clothes, That makes a chimney of your nose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,... I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don different from those regal Dons! With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,... Who shout and bang and roar and brawl The Absolute across the hall,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic;... Don middle-class, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »