Friday 7 January 2022

Legacy

 

 Captain Kidd in New York Harbor
oil on canvas by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris c.1920. Image source: Wikimedia

"I think, my dear, that you can’t ever believe him until you do believe in yourself.
For if you’ve no faith in yourself, you can’t have faith in any other person, can you?”

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"I know it’s not what’s done, but I think it’s what I have to do—don’t you?”
She waited, expectantly. She knew what she yearned to do, and it was a mad thing.


Emma Hamilton

by George Romney, oil on canvas, c.1785

© National Portrait Gallery, London