Doomed to Sincerity
Germaine Greer: Rochester as New Man, 16 September 1999
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
edited by Harold Love.
Oxford, 712 pp., £95, April 1999,0 19 818367 4 Show More
edited by Harold Love.
Oxford, 712 pp., £95, April 1999,
“... at distance about beauty’s throne. There worship and admire, and then they die, Daring no more lay hold of her than I. Reason to worth bears a submissive spirit, But fools can be familiar with merit. Who but that blund’ring blockhead Phaeton Could e’er have thought to drive about the sun? Just such another durst make love to you, Whom not ambition led ... ”