033. Скотт художником был живописным...
Думал он, что — курчав, но был — лысым,
Было в нём чувство вкуса
Лишь притворством искусным,
А талант — заблужденьем был чистым.
Оригинал:
There once was a painter named Scott
Who seemed to have hair, but had not.
He seemed too to have sense:
'Twas an equal pretence
On the part of the painter named Scott.
______This is one of three limericks that we know were written about William Bell Scott (1811–1890),
who published a variant version of the first two lines of this one in his «Autobiographical Notes»
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