id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8557 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) Synge and the Ireland of His Time .txt text/plain 10890 364 68 At times during Synge's last illness, Lady Gregory and I would speak of abstract thoughts are raised up between men's minds and Nature, who never does the same thing twice, or makes one man like another, till presence of a mind like some noisy and powerful machine, of thought need, find words that delight the ear, make pictures to the mind's eye, Synge seemed by nature unfitted to think a political thought, and with change a man's thought about the world or stir his moral nature, for great orator took delight in, from formidable men, from moral life that would destroy the arts; and here, to take a thought from Yet, in Synge's plays also, fantasy gives the form and not the thought, Synge, like all of the great kin, sought for the Synge must have read a great deal at one time, but he was not a man you ./cache/8557.txt ./txt/8557.txt