“We see then that the Supreme Good of the City of God is everlasting and perfect peace, which is not the peace through which men pass in their mortality, in their journey from birth to death, but that peace in which they remain in their immortal state, experiencing no adversity at all. In view of [...]
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Augustine on hope for Parousia, not expectation of utopia
Posted in morsels from Shakespeare, tagged Augustine, future, hope, peace on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
in his reply to Mercutio, Romeo disenchants early-modern England
Posted in morsels from Shakespeare on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mercutio: O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you: She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Over men’s noses as they lie asleep. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by a [...]
digging Friar Lawrence
Posted in morsels from Shakespeare on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb; And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find: Many for many virtues excellent, None but for some, and yet all different. O mickle is the powerful grace that lies In plants, [...]
the freedom of good habit
Posted in morsels from Shakespeare, Uncategorized on September 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
‘…Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery, That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness [...]
