Feb 18, 2024
I came across the word "swaggereth" in a book from 1622 last night and felt like it should be shared with the world.
"Hee swaggereth, as though the whole Towne were his owne."
(source: Adagia in Latine and English, Erasmus, 1622.)
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I came across the word "swaggereth" in a book from 1622 last night and felt like it should be shared with the world.
"Hee swaggereth, as though the whole Towne were his owne."
(source: Adagia in Latine and English, Erasmus, 1622.)
Blickling Hall, Blickling, Norfolk, United Kingdom,
© National Trust Images / James Dobson
George Villiers & Peter Carr MARY & GEORGE (2024) · S1·EP4
Source details and larger version.
Detail of a fireplace at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Blickling is a fine Jacobean house by Robert Lyminge built on the site of an earlier house. It was extensively remodelled in the eighteenth century.
The Fireplace, 1994
O, can a heart be so full of grief, and yet not break?
Some updates of some of the paintings I've been working on ^^
