“Has anyone ever readMadame Bovary?” an actor asks the audience at the start of the show. Seeing very few hands go up, the actor responds “that’s more than I thought”. In that case, what is the point of mocking something when it is acknowledged that very few people will have th...
I’ve had a lot of practice: “But I have never taken yetA strict domestic part,And in my flurry I forgetThe Five Good Rules of EtiquetteWe have to know by heart.” My sympathies were warming fastTowards the little fellow:He was so utterly aghastAt having found a Man at last,And ...
The proofs came, they were corrected, but I heard nothing of the map. I wrote and asked; was told it had never been received, and sat aghast. It is one thing to draw a map at random, set a scale in one corner of it at a venture, and write up a story to the measurements. It...
Where, soon discovering how high the quarrel was likely to proceed, he tried all his arts, and turned himself to a thousand forms. At length, in the borrowed shape of an ass, the regent mistook him for a Modern; by which means he had time and opportunity to escape to the Ancients, ...