I suddenly said: You know, Milton must have been a trichomaniac―meaning a hair fetishist.

a nonhardening sealant

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night.

Or perhaps there is now no heroic wisdom left in England; England, once the land of heroes, is itself sunk now to a dim owlery, and habitation of doleful creatures, intent only on money-making and other forms of catching mice, for whom the proper gospel is the gospel of M‘Croudy, and all nobler impulses and insights are forbidden henceforth?