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Joseph, Chief
c.
1840–1904
c.
1840–1904
1
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
speech at the end of the Nez Percé war in 1877
Joseph, Jenny
1932–
1932–
1
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've got no money for butter.
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've got no money for butter.
"Warning" (1974)
Jowett, Benjamin
1817–93
1817–93
1
The lie in the soul is a true lie.
The lie in the soul is a true lie.
introduction to his translation (1871) of Plato's
Republic
bk. 2
Joyce, James
1882–1941
1882–1941
1
Dear, dirty Dublin.
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
Three quarks for Muster Mark!
A portrait of the artist as a young man.
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
Dear, dirty Dublin.
Dubliners
(1914) "A Little Cloud"
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 1
All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 2
Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Finnegans Wake
(1939) pt. 2
A portrait of the artist as a young man.
title of book (1916)
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916); opening words
Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead king!
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916) ch. 1
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(1916) ch. 5
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Ulysses
(1922); opening words
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
Ulysses
(1922)
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.
Ulysses
(1922)
I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
Ulysses
(1922)
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Ulysses
(1922)
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
Ulysses
(1922)
O, father forsaken,
Forgive your son!
"Ecce Puer"
Joyce, William
(
Lord Haw-Haw
) 1906–46
(
Lord Haw-Haw
) 1906–46
1
Germany calling! Germany calling!
Germany calling! Germany calling!
habitual introduction to propaganda broadcasts to Britain during the Second World War
Juan Carlos I
1938–
1938–
1
I will neither abdicate the Crown nor leave Spain. Whoever rebels will provoke a new civil war and will be responsible.
on the occasion of the attempted coup in 1981
I will neither abdicate the Crown nor leave Spain. Whoever rebels will provoke a new civil war and will be responsible.
on the occasion of the attempted coup in 1981
television broadcast at 1.15 a.m., 24 February 1981
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