Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
Lady GregoryFrom the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
Lady GregoryThere is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Lady GregoryMy husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went throughโ to be two months without going into a houseโ under the snow in trenches. And no food to getโ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food thereโ he saidโ to feed all Ireland; but bad managementโ they could not get it.
Lady Gregory