half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
(из путешествий молодого Бенджамена Дизраэли по европам (Италия))
...he made an excursion to the tomb of Petrarch at Arqua and from Ferrara he went to Tasso's cell. 'The door posts of this gloomy dungeon are covered with the names of its visitors,' he wrote. 'Here scratched with a great nail on the brick wall I saw scrawled “Byron” and immediately beneath it, in a neat banker's hand was written “Sam Rogers”.'
(C. Hibbert, Disraeli, A Personal History)
а кто себе накупил книжек в Ереване тот я))
...he made an excursion to the tomb of Petrarch at Arqua and from Ferrara he went to Tasso's cell. 'The door posts of this gloomy dungeon are covered with the names of its visitors,' he wrote. 'Here scratched with a great nail on the brick wall I saw scrawled “Byron” and immediately beneath it, in a neat banker's hand was written “Sam Rogers”.'
(C. Hibbert, Disraeli, A Personal History)