seventeeth-century

Updated: May 9, 2025

Julian began to con verses in his head, and he recalled the lines of seventeeth-century Eichard Crashaw: "A Face that's best By its own beauty drest, And can alone command the rest." And he caught himself wondering why, whenever he came near the Lady of the Manor, he was anxious to seem less artificial, less affected, and more of a man than his particular 'Omar Kayyam' set had taught him to be.

Marie Corelli - God's Good Man