[…] and, as for the other inconveniences, I remember that a Chinese woman who was just beginning to speak English said to her teacher: “Ma'am, in summer the inns are very bitesome. […] ”
We had been only vaguely aware, I think, how much less belles-lettristic than his French contemporary was the seventeenth-century Englishman...
But today a quiet educator entering for the first time this world of radio will be alarmed by its unacademic atmosphere. Brisk technicians will elbow him...
Was’t not enough, when thou, prophane Diſeaſe,
Did’ſt on this Glorious Temple ſeize ?
Was’t not enough, like a wild Zealot, there
All the rich outward Ornaments to tear,
Deface the innocent pride of beauteous Images ?
Was’t not enough thus rudely to defile,
But thou muſt quite deſtroy the goodly Pile ?
