Saturday, December 16, 2023

Unseen, Unknown

Alexander Pope, Ode to Solitude:

                Thus let me live, unseen, unknown,
                Thus unlamented let me die,
                Steal from the world, and not a stone
                Tell where I lie.

What Cannot Letters Inspire?

Letters of Abelard and Heloise , tr. John Hughes (London, 1776), II., Heloise to Abelard, 87-88: If a picture, which is but a mute represent...