| 1913 - 916 Seiten
...usefulness out of him like that dreaming. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he...conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and (bitterly, at Broadbent) be "agreeable to strangers," like a goodfor-nothing woman on the streets.'... | |
| Bernard Shaw - 1908 - 388 Seiten
...usefulness out of him like that dreaming. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he...conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and (bitterly, at Broadbent) be " agreeable to strangers," like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.... | |
| Bernard Shaw - 1911 - 384 Seiten
...imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never Satisfies him; but it makes him that he_cant face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and (bitterly, at Broadbent) be " agreeable to strangers," like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.... | |
| 1913 - 880 Seiten
...usefulness out of him like that dreaming. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he...conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and (bitterly, at Broadbenf) be "agreeable to strangers," like a goodfor-nothing woman on the streets.'... | |
| Frank Wadleigh Chandler - 1914 - 524 Seiten
...imagination. As Larry Doyle confesses, "An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him ; but it makes him that he...at them that do and ' be agreeable to strangers'. . . ." Shaw's satire upon professions involves his rather mild gibes at men of the church and the law,... | |
| James Oppenheim - 1917 - 840 Seiten
...the torturing, heart scalding, never-satisfying dreaming—the imagination that makes him unable to face reality, nor deal with it, nor handle it, nor conquer it" of his many unfortunate countrymen. He did live in his imagination when he was a boy; and he knows... | |
| 1918 - 300 Seiten
...Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him so that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle...conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and (bitterly, at Broadbenf) be "agreeable to strangers," like a goodfor-nothing woman on the streets.'... | |
| 1920 - 668 Seiten
...dort helsst es: "An Irishman's Imagination never Icts h im alone, never convinces him, never satifies him; but it makes him that he cant face reality, nor deal with it, nor . . . conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do. and be agreeable to strangers . . ." Wie erklärt... | |
| Bernard Shaw - 1921 - 392 Seiten
...usefulness out of him like that dreaming. An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him ; but it makes him that he...conquer it : he can only sneer at them that do, and [Utterly, at Broadbent] be "agreeable to strangers," like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.... | |
| 1922 - 840 Seiten
...Irish: An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him ; bat It makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with...conquer It: he can only sneer at them that do.. .and Imagination's such a torture that you can't bear It without whisky And all the while there goes on... | |
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