Sujet : Re: Byron died (19-4-1824)
De : kehoea (at) *nospam* parhasard.net (Aidan Kehoe)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 20. Apr 2024, 08:47:32
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Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:
> [...] The other Byron quote (too long to copy) is about meeting the
> celebrated "hyperpolyglot", Cardinal Mezzofanti.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caspar_MezzofantiNow that’s a Wikipedia article full of suspicion!
-- ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’(C. Moore)