I have some photo's of Sintra I want to upload to a photo site. It is a very beautiful place and O.W. once said something about it that really sums it up. This was a while ago now and I can't remember where I heard it, or exactly what he is reported to have said.
2007-08-08 13:06:25 · 5 answers · asked by Nick H 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It wasn't Oscar, Nick. It was Poet Laureate Robert Southey. He described the Sintra region as “the most blessed spot in the habitable globe”.
Southey lived for a time in Sintra (always spelled 'Cintra'), and his letters mention the city a lot.
It also appears in Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto 18:
"Lo! Cintra's glorious Eden intervenes
In variegated maze of mount and glen.
Ah me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen,
To follow half on which the eye dilates
Through views more dazzling unto mortal ken
Than those whereof such things the bard relates,
Who to the awe-struck world unlocked Elysium's gates?"
Lord B also said in a letter in 1809 that "the village of Cintra in Estramadura is the most beautiful, perhaps in the world".
Hope this stuff below is of use. (Rarely hear Southey mentioned now, but he knew beauty when he saw it.)
2007-08-08 21:00:07 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...damn! run out of ciggies and not a bottle of Port wine to be had for love nor money...bugger Sintra!
Oscar Wilde Quotes228 quotes and quotations by Oscar Wilde. ... Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author ...
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde.html
Oscar Wilde quotes Oscar Wilde quotes,Oscar, Wilde, author, authors, writer, writers, people, famous people.
http://www.thinkexist.com/quotes/oscar_wilde
Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde (1854-1900) Quotes All but two of my five names have been thrown overboard. Soon I shall discard another and be known simply as ‘The Wilde’ or ‘The Oscar’. ...
http://www.phnet.fi/public/mamaa1/wilde.htm
Oscar Wilde's boyfriend [lord what's his name] was still alive back in the 1960s and did an audio interview with the BBC. He was probably the last surviving person to have actually known Oscar personally.
Oscar Wilde Boyfriend: Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas (1892-95) ... Idylls of the Marketplace: Oscar Wilde and the Victorian Public, 1986, BY: Regenia Gagnier ...
http://www.nndb.com/people/459/000022393
Oscar Wilde Due to the time period's standards, Oscar Wilde was forced to hide behind a thin layer ... he or she should know about Bosie, Wilde's long time boyfriend. ...
http://www.victoriaspast.com/OscarWilde/OscarWilde_copy(1).htm
2007-08-08 22:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by Dragoner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he said "Where the heck are we and what do I have to do to get a drink around here?"
No, wait. I think he said "Is this place named after Frank?"
2007-08-08 13:50:59 · answer #3 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh i love that man
Very True
2007-08-08 15:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by Huggles [mozzafan] 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never heard of him........
2007-08-08 13:11:47 · answer #5 · answered by Kitt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋