Gentle Sir Philip Sidney, thou knew'st what belong'd to a scholler; thou knew'st what pains, what toil, what travail conduct to perfection.
3.09.2006
In Florida
Some people go to Florida this time of year for suntans and debauchery. Me, I go to Florida to sit in conference rooms and listen to papers about quattrocento Florence.
More to come . . . but just for a moment, imagine that you go to school where the view is like this:
"I am grown at length to see into the vanity of the world more than ever I did, and now I condemn myself for nothing so much as playing the dolt in print . . . . There is nothing that if a man list he may not wrest or pervert. I cannot forbid any to think villainously, Sed caveat emptor, let the interpreter beware; for none ever heard me make allegories of an idle text."
1 comment:
Gorgeous.
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