 They tie down donkeys' heads to their hoofs to keep them from straying, in a way that must cause horrible pain, and sometimes when I go into a cottage I find all the women of the place down on their knees plucking the feathers from live ducks and geese.  Forum - Pagina 188editat de - 1911Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | John Millington Synge - 1910 - 282 pagini
...donkeys' heads to their hoofs to keep them from straying, in a way that must cause horrible pain, and sometimes when I go into a cottage I find all the...knees plucking the feathers from live ducks and geese. When the people are in pain themselves they make no attempt to hide or control their feelings. An old... | |
 | Maurice Bourgeois - 1913 - 406 pagini
..."Mary's Well." 2 iii. 13-14. 3 iii. 197 ff. THE WELL OF THE SAINTS From an oil painting by John Currie " Sometimes when I go into a cottage I find all the...their knees plucking the feathers from live ducks and geese."1 Again, the oft-mentioned Patch Ruadh (RedHaired Pat) is one of the Gaelic names heard by Synge... | |
 | Reginald Bateman - 1922 - 172 pagini
...plays is not to be found any definite philosophy; he was that rarest of things — a pure artist. " He loves all that has edge, all that is salt in the...rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contrast, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy." All his plays, except the beautiful Deirdre,... | |
 | John Millington Synge - 2008 - 484 pagini
...donkeys' heads to their hoofs to keep them from straying, in a way that must cause horrible pain, and sometimes when I go into a cottage I find all the...knees plucking the feathers from live ducks and geese. When the people are in pain themselves they make no attempt to hide or control their feelings. An old... | |
 | William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein - 2007 - 560 pagini
...wantonness of fancy Martin Doul accused the smith of plucking his living ducks, but a few lines farther on, in this book where moral indignation is unknown,...their knees plucking the feathers from live ducks and geese.'33 He loves all that has edge, all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand,... | |
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