Marginalium

A note in the margins

September 21, 2022

Marginalium

My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.

The Contradictory Nature of the Elizabethans:

the Elizabethans … They had a passion for virtue and a genius for cruelty. They had wonderful manners and barbaric inclinations, lovely clothes and terrible diseases. They oscillated madly between the abstract and the corporeal. And among his contemporaries, nobody oscillated more madly than John Donne


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