In the musical Hamilton, at one point Angelica sings to her heartbroken sister “You married an Icarus, he’s flown too close to the sun”.
This line is adapted from a reference made in a letter from Angelica to Eliza, quoted here:
Tranquilize your kind and good heart, my dear Eliza, for I have the most positive assurance from Mr. Church that the dirty fellow who has caused us all some uneasiness and wounded your feelings, my dear love, is effectually silenced. Merit, virtue and talents must have enemies and are always exposed to envy so that, my Eliza, you see the penalties attending the position of so amiable a man. All this you would not have suffered if you had married into a family less near the sun…
With all my heart and redoubled tenderness,
Angelica
(Thanks to The Hamilton Lettering Project for fishing this out of history and into context of the musical)
“All of this you would not have suffered if you had married into a family less near the sun . . . “.
I wish people still spoke and wrote like this.
That’s it. That’s the point of this post. I just wish people still spoke and wrote like this.
