Sublime

First Letter

Calvert readjusted his will so that Wordsworth would get £900 on the event of his death. Calvert serves as the patron saint of a rare sort of social type: the person who can see a gift in others, push that person toward their vocation, and provide practical assistance to make it happen.

as Weygand writes, “the quintessential aristocrats of mendicancy” (a fancier-sounding and less racially loaded version, perhaps, of the contemporary image of the “welfare queen”).

Quant à lui, Francisco Serrao, ci-devant capitaine de la flotte portugaise, il en a par-dessus la tête de la guerre, des aventures et du trafic des épices ! Il passe sans emphase du monde héroïque dans l’idyllique et décide de mener l’existence toute primitive, idéalement oisive de cette aimable peuplade. La haute dignité de grand-vizir que lui con