John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, With Biographical Notes
John M. Synge: a Few Personal Recollections, With Biographical Notes
Masefield John
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Francis of Assisi, (which he abandoned, because an English translation was publishedat the time) and for a critical study of Racine, whose pure andnoble art always meant much to him. Some critical and otherwritings of this period exist in manuscript. They are said to becarefully written, but wanting in inner impulse. Throughout this period if not throughout his life he lived withthe utmost ascetic frugality, bordering always, or touching, onpoverty. He used to say that his income was "forty pou...nds a yearand a new suit of clothes, when my old ones get too shabby. " Hehad no expensive habits, he was never self-indulgent, he had nowish to entertain nor to give away, no desire to make nor to ownmoney, no taste for collection nor zest for spending. He eschewedall things that threatened his complete frugal independence andthereby the integrity of his mind. The superficial man, not seeing this last point, sometimes feltthat he "did not know how to abound. " * * * * * When in Paris in 1899, he met Mr.
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