Saturday, November 03, 2012
Italian Lesson
Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922), Diary and Letters (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), p. 73:
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Professor [Charles Eliot] Norton lectured in Italian 4 this afternoon. The dear old man looks so mildly happy and benignant while he regrets everything in the age and the country—so contented, while he gently tells us it were better for us had we never been born in this degenerate and unlovely age—that I remain fixed between wrath and unwilling affection.
