tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post7728215163817803408..comments2024-02-29T02:16:45.679-08:00Comments on Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: The Admirable CrichtonJohn V. Fleminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17136533410768061217noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-1182674372836659002014-11-27T06:02:33.800-08:002014-11-27T06:02:33.800-08:00Of course he could know everything. The Trivium te...Of course he could know everything. The Trivium teaches a kid how to think efficiently and validly, and the Quadrivium teaches him how to apply his mind efficiently and validly to the world around him. It's cause and effect. Every time the Seven Liberal Arts are the foundation of early-childhood education, we have a renaissance. KOJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559183301315431096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-82227054214082645732014-11-27T05:36:40.315-08:002014-11-27T05:36:40.315-08:00Thanks for the note. The trope of the "serva...Thanks for the note. The trope of the "servant turned master" is pretty pervasive in early drama, and then beginning with Pergolesi's "Serva Padrona" in opera as well. One of my friends wrote to me reminding me of Ainsworth's novel about Crichton (1837). There is no particular thematic link between Barrie and the "historical" Crichton, just a play on the name, I think.John V. Fleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17136533410768061217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-21762585264743554622014-11-27T05:15:15.477-08:002014-11-27T05:15:15.477-08:00Wasn't there some more immediate Late Victoria...Wasn't there some more immediate Late Victorian/Edwardian source for Barrie's play? I'm away from my books, and don't remember where I might have read it, anyway. Still, I have some vague memory that there was a relatively well-known figure in that time who had a servant who was brilliantly learned and surprisingly adept—a kind of show-piece for the master to show off. Doyle uses him as a model, too, for the servant in the Sherlock Holmes's story "The Musgrave Ritual." Joseph Bottumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14626756260828687856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-72775675278305834102014-11-26T19:53:17.306-08:002014-11-26T19:53:17.306-08:00Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best,
Struc...Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best,<br />Struck thro’ with wounds, all honest on the breast.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08827221668026534178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-35540905457211179362014-11-26T14:19:04.054-08:002014-11-26T14:19:04.054-08:00Legend-wise, whether "twenty-two or thirty-tw...Legend-wise, whether "twenty-two or thirty-two", he had the advantage of dying young.srhcbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06007109160584748993noreply@blogger.com