self-negative

Updated: June 24, 2025

There was plenty of bacon, and abundance of cabbages eggs, ad infinitum oaten and wheaten bread in piles turkeys, geese, pullets, as fat as aldermen cream as rich as Croesus and three gallons of poteen, one sparkle of which, as Father Philemy said in the course of the evening, would lay the hairs on St. Francis himself in his most self-negative mood, if he saw it.

William Carleton - The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three