They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. John Millington Synge championcheerlad Change image and share on social
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. John Millington Synge canoecanvascivilisation Change image and share on social
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. John Millington Synge absenceagileanimal share on social
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. John Millington Synge blotgivegood Change image and share on social
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. John Millington Synge bootbruisedeal share on social
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. John Millington Synge complaintdeatheighty Change image and share on social
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. John Millington Synge dangerousdestroyhumour Change image and share on social
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. John Millington Synge givemusicpoem Change image and share on social
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. John Millington Synge artarticleartistic Change image and share on social
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. John Millington Synge blightblisterblotch Change image and share on social
