<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410082" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade Of Modest Confession</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My reading is extremely deep and wide; <br>And as our modern education goes— <br>Unique I think, and skilfully applied <br>To Art and Industry and Autres Choses <br>Through many years of scholarly repose. <br>But there is one thing where I disappoint <br>My numerous admirers (and my foes). <br>Painting on Vellum is my weakest point. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ride superbly. When I say I 'ride' <br>The word's too feeble. I am one of those <br>That dominate a horse. It is my pride <br>To tame the fiercest with tremendous blows <br>Of heel and knee. The while my handling shows <br>Such lightness as a lady's. But Aroint <br>Thee! Human frailty with thy secret woes! <br>Painting on Vellum is my weakest point. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Painting on Vellum: not on silk or hide <br>Or ordinary Canvas: I suppose <br>No painter of the present day has tried <br>So many mediums with success, or knows <br>As well as I do how the subject grows <br>Beneath the hands of genius, that anoint <br>With balm. But I have something to disclose— <br>Painting on Vellum is my weakest point. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Envoi<br>Prince! do not let your Nose, your royal Nose, <br>Your large imperial Nose get out of Joint. <br>For though you cannot touch my golden Prose, <br>Painting on Vellum is my weakest point.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hilaire+Belloc">Hilaire Belloc</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410082" data-title="Ballade Of Modest Confession de Hilaire Belloc" data-description="My reading is extremely deep and wide; And as our modern education goes— Unique I think, and skilfully applied To Art and Industry and Autres Choses Through many years of scholarly repose. But there is one thing where I disappoint My numer..."></div> </div> </div>

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