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...George Moore, Yeats, "A. E.," Synge, James Stephens, and James Joyce, his famous fellow-townsmen. Despite the brilliance of this company, Gogarty always fascinates his friends. When he talks, piling imagination with breath-taking invention, they listen and remember. One of his companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration for Moore's "Tree of Vision." Gogarty himself is the Buck Mulligan in Joyce's "Ulysses...
...barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest wit...
...greater man than Shakespeare, has now written a fable that will further shock the righteous. In it he puts himself on a level with Voltaire. Christ and Mohammed; he is a hero and the God of the Old Testament is a bogey-villain. In spite of his destructive wit which many even nowadays call blasphemous. Iconoclast Shaw is a kindly soul; like the light-hearted pessimist, his good nature keeps breaking through. Choleric colonels might take their apoplectic death from reading The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, and the Cambridge (England) public library has barred...
...first mentioned book is a compilation of new facts from Elizabethan Courts of Law and other sources which relate directly to such men as John Lyly, a master of comedy and wit; Lodowick Dryskett, the friend of Sponser; and Sir George Bue, Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays...
...once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses before...