A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Monday, June 02, 2025
Sunday, June 01, 2025
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd to motion, measures all things durable by present, past, and future.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Monday, June 13, 2022
To know good by knowing good is the privilege of the unfallen.
Catherine Nicholson, on Milton in the NYR.
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Eloquence and erudition were the twin prerequisites of greatness ... any effort expended in the cultivation of such gifts would surely be rewarded, if not in this world then in the world to come.
Catherine Nicholson, on Milton in the NYR.
Friday, June 10, 2011
I made him just and right,
Sufficient to have stood,
Though free to fall.
Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III.