[T]heir Minds are ſo tender and effeminate, that they cannot bear the leaſt Air of Trouble vvithout Diſturbance; and vvhat vvould be a Diverſion to a couragious Soul, grieveth and incommodeth them.

Let meaner Souls by Virtue be cajold, As the good Grecian Spinstress was of old

Cinn Comhairlí have long been criticised for being ‘creatures of the government’ by virtue of their direct appointment by the Taoiseach.

He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers