 | Mark Twain - 1917 - 404 páginas
...not a single book. Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned...poem, not an unfinished literary work, not a scrap oj manuscript of any kind. Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has... | |
 | Henry Watterson - 1923 - 440 páginas
...not a single book. Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned...manuscript of any kind. "Many poets have died poor," sententiously interjects the creator of "Pudd'nhead Wilson," "but this is the only one in history that... | |
 | Raymond Bernard - 1993 - 106 páginas
...not a single book. Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned...will. The will mentioned not a play, not a poem, not en unfinished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind." Many poets died poor, but this... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2004 - 392 páginas
...NOT A SINGLE BOOK. Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second-best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned...history that has died THIS poor; the others all left If Shakespeare had owned a dog - but we not go into that: we know he would have mentioned it in his... | |
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Books were much more precious than swords and silver-gilt bowls and second32 best beds in those days, and when a departing person owned one he gave it a high place in his will. The will mentioned not a play, not a poem, not an unfinished literary work,... 