This book gathers short, pithy expressions concerning it by Herschel, Goldsmith, Emerson, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Dryden, Carlyle, Sala, Beecher, Willmott, Hamerton, Fielding, Swift, Macaulay, Sterne, Masson, Balzac, George curtis, and others.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He really saw more of old curtis the gardener, but half an hour with his father could seem a very long time.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Old curtis, wearing the enormous sun-hat that he always had flapping about his head and his trousers tied below his knees with string in the most ridiculous way, was sweeping the garden path.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
