pravoque

Updated: May 8, 2025

Lucius Catilina nobili genere natus, magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque how does this at once bring up an image of the arch-rebel, of Satan himself, as the poets have conceived him, how does it attract, with its effects of energy, intelligence and pride, the curiosity of one whose way of life, as Keats would say, is still undecided, his ambition still thick-sighted!

Edmund Gosse - Henrik Ibsen