Quote#Books & Reading
My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and…
Quote byBram Stoker · 1847–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1907), On a later meeting of Richard Francis Burton, on 8 February 1879, in, Vol. 1, p. 225.
English (original)
My first impression of the man as of steel was consolidated and enhanced. He told us, amongst other things, of the work he had in hand. Three great books were partially done. The translation of the Arabian Nights, the metrical translation of Camoëns, and the Book of the Sword. These were all works of vast magnitude and requiring endless research. But he lived to complete them all.
— Bram Stoker
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