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  • I am, thing Sing Larynx, letter potent to play the sem backwards like Oscan wild or in shunt Persse trans-luding from the Otherman or off the Toptic or anything off the types of my finklers in the draught or with buttles, with my oyes thickshut and all.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • He came home to Coole in 1877 and married Isabella Augusta Persse Lady Gregory, his second wife, in 1880.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • He came home to Coole in 1877 and married Isabella Augusta Persse Lady Gregory, his second wife, in 1880.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She was a Persse—a form of the name Shakespeare calls Percy—descended from some Duke of Northumberland; her family had settled in the seventeenth century somewhere in the midlands, but finding, the legend declares, the visits of Lord Clanricarde, going and returning between his estate and Dublin, expensive, they had moved that they might be no longer near the high road and bought vast tracts of Galway land.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • William Persse 1727-1802 formed the Roxborough Volunteers in 1777.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • William Persse 1727-1802 formed the Roxborough Volunteers in 1777.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But the born student of the great literature of the world cannot proselytize, and Augusta Persse, as Lady Gregory was then named, walked and discussed Shakespeare with a man but little steadier than her brothers, a scholar of Trinity,18 in later years a famous botanist, a friendship ended by her alarmed mother.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • But the born student of the great literature of the world cannot proselytize, and Augusta Persse, as Lady Gregory was then named, walked and discussed Shakespeare with a man but little steadier than her brothers, a scholar of Trinity,18 in later years a famous botanist, a friendship ended by her alarmed mother.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She was a Persse—a form of the name Shakespeare calls Percy—descended from some Duke of Northumberland; her family had settled in the seventeenth century somewhere in the midlands, but finding, the legend declares, the visits of Lord Clanricarde, going and returning between his estate and Dublin, expensive, they had moved that they might be no longer near the high road and bought vast tracts of Galway land.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • She was a Persse—a form of the name Shakespeare calls Percy—descended from some Duke of Northumberland; her family had settled in the seventeenth century somewhere in the midlands, but finding, the legend declares, the visits of Lord Clanricarde, going and returning between his estate and Dublin, expensive, they had moved that they might be no longer near the high road and bought vast tracts of Galway land.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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