Word: teddington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...things, that which a man finds most impossible to learn by himself. There is nothing, perhaps, in which unaided practice is so certain to make a man develop a bad style. If any person doubts this, let him look at the River Thames on a Saturday afternoon. From Teddington to Wadsworth it is covered with boats, which are being rowed and sculled by persons exhibiting every possible fault that an oarsman can commit. The round back, the hanging head, the wriggling body, these are only a few of the hideous distortions observable on every side. How are they...