IV. Unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty’s legacy? Nature’s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free: Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse The bounteous largess given thee to give? Profitless usurer, why dost thou use So [Read more…]
III. Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb Disdains the tillage of thy [Read more…]
In a previous blog post I sought to explain how Michel de Montaigne‘s Pyrrhonian scepticism, far from being indicative of “atheism”, was in fact a mark of his orthodoxy. I have just noticed an article in the Guardian by Sarah Bakewell which argues a similar point. Bakewell writes: Montaigne was [Read more…]
II. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now Will be a totter’d weed, of small worth held: Then being ask’d, where all thy beauty lies, Where all the treasure of thy lusty days, To [Read more…]
One of the things I love about summer in Japan is the local festivals. Actually, there are festivals all the year around, but summer festivals have a special feel about them and our local festival at Rakurakuen is one of my favourites. It is held on two consecutive Saturdays at [Read more…]
Here’s the second game of chess played between Dr M and myself after the History in English class on Wednesday July 4th. Once again, Dr M as White opened with what the Germans call der Linksspringer – i.e. the Queen’s Knight Opening – to which I responded with the Caro [Read more…]
One of the most influential books in the field of English Renaissance studies in the last 30 years has been Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt, the leading light of the school of “new historicism” and a professor of English literature at the University of California, Berkeley. [Read more…]
Title: Kanda Ballet Studio Recital Location: Aster Plaza Grand Hall, Hiroshima Description: The biennial ballet recital of the Kanda Ballet studio. Start Time: 12:30 Date: 2012-07-22 Here are some photos of my daughter, Eileen, in yesterday’s dress rehearsal for today’s ballet recital. I borrowed a Nikon D7000 from Andy Lightfoot [Read more…]
I. From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, [Read more…]
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