Saturday, May 24, 2008

Gogarty, O. St.J. As I was Going Down Sackville Street 1937

It cannot summarized but is best read.

15: Augustine's Latin: only to be compared with Lyly's Euphues: nondum amarem sed amare amabam

18: When I read his translation of Aeschylus, I find it very useful to have the Greek beside me so that I may find out what the English means.

41: Lloyd George, untrustworthy in two languages

155: De Valera was marching on Dublin at the head of 20,000 words

218: There are some questions which do not admit of an answer because the fallacy lies in their being put at all

244: Aristocrats can be trusted not to lower others to gain height themselves

255: America's village idiots had all gone to Washington [Al Smith]

277: He withheld his admiration

282: My conscience automatically becomes bad when I meet an archbishop

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