Tea... Finest China, Plain (Moning).

As a man might say, an overshadowed and darke picture, enter-shining [translating entreluisant] with an infinit varietie of false lights, to exercise our conjectures.

And there have been Common-wealths that having no more Territory, than hath served them for habitation, have neverthelesse, not onely maintained, but also encreased their Power, partly by the labour of trading from one place to another, and partly by selling the Manifactures, whereof the Materials were brought in from other places.

Goethe is the great foundation figure; Byron and Shelley are the high-minded but incompetent misfirers; Carlyle, through an infection of international provincialism that crippled his genius, is the great but failed physician […]