Monthly Archives: November 2008

A Fourteenth-Century Blogger?

Posted on Monday: November 10, 2008 by Michael Hendry

If I fail to say what lies on my mind it gives me a feeling of flatulence; I shall therefore give my brush free rein. Mine is a foolish diversion, but these pages are meant to be torn up, and … Continue reading →

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Posted on Sunday: November 2, 2008 by Michael Hendry

Laudator Temporis Acti has an amusing post on ‘comical construes’. Here is another, as I heard it from one of my professors in grad school: In Satires 1.4.120, Horace uses the phrase nabis sine cortice, “you will swim without a … Continue reading →

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Milton on Reading

Posted on Saturday: November 1, 2008 by Michael Hendry

                              However many books Wise men have said are wearisom; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep … Continue reading →

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