Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Lady Wentworth.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
volume I, chapter IX: "Life at Down", page 385 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=405&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image; letter http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-1489 to William Darwin Fox (24 October 1852) <br class="br">quoted in At Home: A Short History of Private Life (2011) by Bill Bryson <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
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