ادوارد لیر

Person · Open Library

Born

1812

Died

1888

Works

536

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

France

Active from

1939-11-18

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

823

Total plays

2,707

Edward Lear was born in Highgate, a suburb of London, the 20th child of his parents and was raised by his eldest sister, Ann, twenty-one years his senior. At the age of fifteen, he and his sister had to leave the family home and set up house together. He started work as a serious illustrator and his first publication, at the age of 19, was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830. His paintings were well received and he was favourably compared with John James Audubon. <a hr

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,958x

2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

   · 2000 · cited 28,577x

3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

   · 2000 · cited 24,799x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,547x

5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

   · 1963 · cited 18,994x

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Quotes

• “There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, "It is just as I feared!—Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!"”
• “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!Who has written such volumes of stuff!Some think him ill-tempered and queer,But a few think him pleasant enough.”
• “His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.”
• “Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.”
• “Calico Pie,The little Birds flyDown to the calico tree,Their wings were blue,And they sang "Tilly-loo!"Till away they flew,—And they never came back to me!”
• “Calico Jam,The little Fish swam,Over the syllabub sea,He took off his hat,To the Sole and the Sprat,And the Willeby-Wat,—But he never came back to me!”

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