I wake early these long days. Today I caught Dawn, the rosy-fingered.
As Logan Pearsall Smith said,
I wish I had learnt Greek as I intended to at university and could read Homer.
I just discovered on the net that Wycherley (not a favourite playwright of mine) in old age said:
As Logan Pearsall Smith said,
'What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!'
I wish I had learnt Greek as I intended to at university and could read Homer.
I just discovered on the net that Wycherley (not a favourite playwright of mine) in old age said:
"It is at dawn, the rosy- fingered, that one must savor the divine Homer. Was he not describing for us the dawn of the world?"
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