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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)Wilde was bom in Dublin in 1854, the son of distinguished parents. His mother, Lady Wilde, was famous for her volumes of Irish stories. Wilde went first to Trinity College, Dublin, and...

I`ve heard tell that he called her the evil spirit that set men mad. But most of the people that were there are dead or gone to America and no one rightly knows what...

And he went fairly wild when Julia told him the example she was going to set. He tried to keep his temper, sir, but it was getting the better of him all the while....

And many`s the pound she had made for her parents at that counter. Michael Moran says to the father, `Now, what fortune are you going to give with Julia?` And the father says there...

“Didn`t she go into the mountains every night to meet the fairies, and who else could`ve given her the power to put a curse upon the village?”“But she couldn`t walk so far in one...

George Moore (1852-1933)George Moore was born in County Mayo, in 1852, of a well-to-do family. At an early age he wished to become a painter, and went to Paris for that purpose. Finding that...

“The boatswain found me, as he said, an obstinate fellow: he swore he knew that I understood my business well, but that I shammed Abraham, to be idle; but God knows, I knew nothing...

We had but an indifferent passage, for being all confined in the hold, more than a hundred of our people died for want of sweet air; and those that remained were sickly enough, God...

I had some dis-position to be a scholar, and was resolved at least to know my letters: but the master of the workhouse put me to business as soon as I was able to...

With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero or a Rabutin complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that of being unable to visit a certain spot of earth,...