Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
"Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet’s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King’s evil; and Queen Anne when a child..."
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"Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poet’s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the King’s evil; and Queen Anne when a child..."
"أما سوينبرن، بالمناسبة، فقد ذهب وهو شاب يافع جداً إلى والتر سافاج لاندور، الذي كان آنذاك شيخاً طاعناً في السن، ونال منه بركة الشاعر التي طلبها؛ ولاندور، وهو طفل، ربت الدكتور صمويل جونسون على رأسه؛ وجونسون، وهو طفل، أُخذ إلى لندن لتمسه الملكة آن طلباً للشفاء من الخنازير، أو داء الملك؛ والملكة آن، وهي طفلة..."
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
"...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing."
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
"England looked strange to us returned soldiers. We could not understand the war-madness that ran wild everywhere, looking for a pseudo-military outlet. The civilians talked a foreign language. I found serious conversation with my parents all but impossible."
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
"About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return."
Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
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