Hence, vain deluding joys,
The brood of Folly without father bred.
John Milton, Il Penseroso.
Showing posts with label John Milton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Milton. Show all posts
4.02.2007
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A little hobby of mine; which gives me a strange feeling of satisfaction; mainly upon discovery. Displaced from their original context I would imagine they seem obscure. Much of the revelevance of the quote and the significance of the use of the word folly is lost. Yet still I persist; and this blog provides me with a means of storage and arrangement.
Of particular interest
Most Quoted
Quoted
- A. E. Housman (1)
- Abu Bakr (1)
- Adam Smith (2)
- Alcaeus (1)
- Aldous Leonard Huxley (1)
- Alexander Pope (2)
- Ambrose Bierce (2)
- Anatole France (1)
- Anthony Hope (1)
- Barbara Jones (5)
- Benjamin Franklin (2)
- Chambers English Dictionary (1)
- Chesterfield (1)
- David Hockney (1)
- Dictionary (6)
- drawing (1)
- Eccentric Britain (1)
- Edward Gibbon (1)
- Erasmus (2)
- f (12)
- Fanny Burney (1)
- Felix the Cat (1)
- Folly Book (17)
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1)
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1)
- Friedrich von Schiller (1)
- George Ade (1)
- George Bernard Shaw (1)
- George Eliot (1)
- Gwyn Headley and Wym Meulenkamp (2)
- H. L. Mencken (1)
- Hans Holbein (2)
- Helen Rowland (1)
- Herbert Spencer (1)
- heritage.co.uk (2)
- Hilaire Belloc (1)
- Homer (1)
- Horace (3)
- Isaac Asimov (1)
- Izaak Walton (1)
- Jane Austen (3)
- John Lancaster Spalding (1)
- John Milton (1)
- John Quincy Adams (1)
- John Stuart Mill. (1)
- Jonathan Swift (1)
- Joseph Addison (1)
- Josh Billings (1)
- Lord Byron (1)
- Lord Chesterfield (1)
- m (81)
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (1)
- Mary Ann Cross (1)
- Matthew Arnold (1)
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (1)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1)
- Oliver Goldsmith (2)
- Oxford Dictionary (2)
- Paul Valery (1)
- Peter Acrkroyd (1)
- Publilius Syrus (1)
- Richard Cecil (1)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1)
- Samuel Johnson (1)
- Shakespeare (4)
- Sir (7)
- Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1)
- Sir Hugh Casson (6)
- Stuart Barton (2)
- The Bhagavad Gita (1)
- The Bible (1)
- The Folly Fellowship (3)
- The Forbidden Corner (1)
- Thomas Carlyle (1)
- Thomas Gray (1)
- Thomas H. Huxley (1)
- W. B. Yeats (1)
- W. G. Sebald (1)
- Wilhelm Canaris (1)
- William Blake (3)
- William Faulkner (1)
- William Hogarth (1)
- Winston Churchill (2)
Past Posts
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- You never see animals going through the absurd and...
- Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the...
- Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we ...
- Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Igno...
- I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifferen...
- Beauty and folly are old companions.Benjamin Franklin
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Little links
- A 20th Century folly - by a retired art teacher
- A French folly
- Follies and Monuments
- Follies in German
- odd-stuff.com
- Subterranea Britannica - society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places.
- The Folly Fellowship
- Folly Fellowship quoted
- The Mausolea & Monuments Trust