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"Without doubt to-day some pilgrim Roweth to this island shore."

"SCENE VIII.
THE ENTRANCE OF A CONVENT — AT THE END THE CAVE OF PATRICK..."

Tags: birdlife, grimness, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"I am an abyss of crimes"

"LUIS. Father, if my name I told,
I'm afraid that swiftly flying,
With a terror uncontrolled..."

Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"The dark place reserved for sin"

"KING. What would'st thou?

PATRICK. Come with me..."

Tags: grimness, miracle, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"See ye not here this rock some power secureth"

"SCENE XIX.
POLONIA. — THE SAME..."

Tags: grimness, hills, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

"The fatal refuge of the frozen night"

"[POLONIA:] This, then, by mournful cypress trees surrounded,
Between the lips of rocks at either side,
Reveals a monstrous neck of length unbounded..."

Tags: grimness, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

Bobby expresses his confusion

Bobby expresses his confusion at the extravagant embodied devotion and extreme austerity of the pilgrimage to Lough Derg and that it exposes a side of Jenny that he has never seen before.

Tags: car journey, confusion, Irish identity, literature, negative description, pilgrims, religiosity, Sean O'Faolain, short stories, twentieth century