My hopes rose high and methought my evil days were at an end, and I stood waiting for alms to be given unasked and for wealth scattered on all sides in the dust.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.
4 And that was it. The civilization of Greece and the glory of Roman architecture were captured in a condensed non-statement. My student's " whoa" ! was exceeded only by my head-shaking distress.