[Hardy-l] sentence sense

[Bill Morgan]

BRAVO !

What a fount of wisdom you are, Bill

Cheers
Rosemarie

Hey Bill--
	
Bravo and many thanks!

Jack

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Rosemarie & Jack--

I blush at your praise, even while I thank you for it.  It's true I knew the
allusion was to AYLI (always one of Hardy's favorite plays, even from his
20's in London), but Google can make one of modest learning look wise!

And speaking of praise, what is the nature of the praise for woman's wit
(meaning, I think, something like resourcefulness and energy that are not to
be denied) in both the Shakespeare original and in Hardy's uses of the
passage?  Is that praise straightforward and unobstructed, or does it have a
reserve of patronizing anxiety in it?  

Worth talking about?

Cheers,

Bill