| 词汇 | always scribble scribble scribble eh mr gibbon |
| 词源 | “always scribble, scribble, scribble! eh! Mr. Gibbon?”. Henry Digby Beste, in his Personal and Literary Memorials (1829), tells the full story of this famous remark made to English historian Edward Gibbon: “The Duke of Gloucester, brother of King George III, permitted Mr. Gibbon to present him with the first volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire. When the second volume of that work appeared, it was quite in order that it should be presented to His Royal Highness in like manner. The prince received the author with much good nature and affability, saying to him, as he laid the quarto on the table, ‘Another damn’d thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?’ ” This insulting remark about the greatest historical work in English (though Gibbon generally saw history as “little more than the crimes, follies and misfortunes of men”) has also been attributed to the duke of Cumberland. |
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