scapia

Updated: May 19, 2025

But no they fell, even more rapidly than they rose, till their grace and their cultivation, for them they could not lose, made them the willing ministers to the luxury, the frivolity, the sentimentality, the vice of the whole old world the Scapia or Figaro of the old world infinitely able, but with all his ability consecrated to the service of his own base self.

Charles Kingsley - Literary and General Lectures and Essays