Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay, by Lord Dunsany, Edited by W. B. YeatsThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Selections from the Writings of Lord DunsayAuthor: Lord DunsanyRelease Date: October 7, 2004 [eBook #13664]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSAY***E-text prepared by S. R. Ellison, David Starner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTranscriber's Note:Two names are accented with Macrons (a short horizontal bar over the letter), for which there is no ASCIIcharacter. They are usually marked as [=e], as in Argim[=e]n[=e]s. For legibility, they have been replacedhere by the bare letter. To restore the original accents,change Oonrana to Oonr[=a]na change Argimenes to Argim[=e]n[=e]sSELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORDDUNSANYMCMXII[Illustration]CONTENTS The Gods of the Mountain The First Act of King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior The Fall of Babbulkund The Sphinx at Gizeh Idle Days on the Yann A Miracle The Castle of TimeINTRODUCTIONILady Wilde once told me that when she was a young girl she was stopped in some Dublin street by a great crowd andturned into a shop to escape from it. She stayed ...

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SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSANY MCMXII

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF LORD DUNSAY***

Title: Selections from the Writings of Lord Dunsay Author: Lord Dunsany Release Date: October 7, 2004 [eBook #13664] Language: English

Transcriber's Note: Two names are accented with Macrons (a short horizontal bar over the letter), for which there is no ASCII character. They are usually marked as [=e], as in Argim[=e]n[=e]s. For legibility, they have been replaced here by the bare letter. To restore the original accents, change Oonrana to Oonr[=a]na change Argimenes to Argim[=e]n[=e]s

E-text prepared by S. R. Ellison, David Starner, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

CONTENTS

 The Gods of the Mountain  The First Act of King Argimenes and the Unknown Warrior  The Fall of Babbulkund  The Sphinx at Gizeh  Idle Days on the Yann  A Miracle  The Castle of Time

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II The melancholy, the philosophic irony, the elaborate music of a play by John Synge, the simplicity, the sense of splendour of living in Lady Gregory's lamentation of Emer, Mr. James Stephens when he makes the sea waves 'Tramp with banners on the shore' are as much typical of our thoughts and day, as was 'She dwelt beside the Anner with mild eyes like the dawn,' or any stanza of the 'Pretty girl of Lough Dan,' or any novel of Charles Lever's of a time that sought to bring Irish men and women into one nation by means of simple patriotism and a genial taste for oratory and anecdotes. A like change passed over Ferrara's brick and stone when its great Duke, where there had been but narrow medieval streets, made many palaces and threw out one straight and wide street, as Carducci said, to meet the Muses. Doubtless the men of 'Perdóndaris that famous city' have such antiquity of manners and of culture that it is of small moment should they please themselves with some tavern humour; but we must needs cling to 'our foolish Irish pride' and form an etiquette, if we would not have our people crunch their chicken bones with too convenient teeth, and make our intellect architectural that we may not see them turn domestic and effusive nor nag at one another in narrow streets.

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