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Read this first as a college freshman, required Humanities course--in my case, taught by the Latin translator Rolfe Humphries. Read it more in context in grad school . when I T.A.'d for a survey course and wrote on17C lit. Still a question, what belief in afterlife a good physician with courses like Gross Anatomy can possibly harbor.
I'm reading this right now, and as far as I've gotten, your description is beautiful and accurate. Wonderful quote.
a wonderful sentence indeed... reminds me of Melville!
Dronestar wrote: "a wonderful sentence indeed... reminds me of Melville!"
An astute observation! Melville loved Browne, and learned much about style from him. He once referred to Browne as "a crack'd Archangel."
I would say Bertrand Russell was the greatest British polymath, but nice review.
The semicolon has never been so beautiful as with these two.
Thanks, Bill. Yet how far is his moiling prose, together with that of de Quincey and Coleridge, from the far more valuable cutting and ironic words of a Kierkegaard, Bunyan or T.S. Eliot - men who saw clearly that the urgency of the spiritual challenge allows few compromises.
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs wrote: "Thanks, Bill. Yet how far is his moiling prose, together with that of de Quincey and Coleridge, from the far more valuable cutting and ironic words of a Kierkegaard, Bunyan or T.S. Eliot - men who ..."
Just noticed your comment. Thanks for teaching me a useful word I did not know: "Moiling."
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Read this first as a college freshman, required Humanities course--in my case, taught by the Latin translator Rolfe Humphries. Read it more in context in grad school . when I T.A.'d for a survey course and wrote on17C lit. Still a question, what belief in afterlife a good physician with courses like Gross Anatomy can possibly harbor.
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I'm reading this right now, and as far as I've gotten, your description is beautiful and accurate. Wonderful quote.
a wonderful sentence indeed... reminds me of Melville!
Dronestar wrote: "a wonderful sentence indeed... reminds me of Melville!"An astute observation! Melville loved Browne, and learned much about style from him. He once referred to Browne as "a crack'd Archangel."
I would say Bertrand Russell was the greatest British polymath, but nice review.
The semicolon has never been so beautiful as with these two.
Thanks, Bill. Yet how far is his moiling prose, together with that of de Quincey and Coleridge, from the far more valuable cutting and ironic words of a Kierkegaard, Bunyan or T.S. Eliot - men who saw clearly that the urgency of the spiritual challenge allows few compromises.
Fergus, Weaver of Autistic Webs wrote: "Thanks, Bill. Yet how far is his moiling prose, together with that of de Quincey and Coleridge, from the far more valuable cutting and ironic words of a Kierkegaard, Bunyan or T.S. Eliot - men who ..."Just noticed your comment. Thanks for teaching me a useful word I did not know: "Moiling."
