Quote#Remembrance
Burton had a most vivid way of putting things — especially of the…
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 meeting of Richard Francis Burton on 18 September 1886, Vol. 1, p. 230.
English (original)
Burton had a most vivid way of putting things — especially of the East. He had both a fine imaginative power and a memory richly stored not only from study but from personal experience.
— Bram Stoker
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