Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 578
url ofhis perfumed beard, while, at the same time, hedevoted himself with true interest to the deepproblems of philosophy. But Diogenes had nopatience with niceties, and held a very indif-ferent opinion of Plato. A shallow fellow, aterrible talker, he called him, and contemptu-ously spoke of his… … SIR EDWIN LANDSEER S PAINTING, DIOGENES AND ALEXANDER. courtesy, and plain-spoken even to rudeness.One would say that he was coarse-grained bynature; but he showed signs of tenderness, andeven refinement, which proved that the grainwas not entirely coarse, and which make uswonder at an age that…
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