[…] she is adopting a mannered elegance much as a man does when he is being camply effeminate.

Nought suffered he the Ape to give or graunt , But through his hand alone must passe the Fiaunt

His intrinsic beauty and power meant nothing to the hundreds of thousands who were acclaiming him and buying his books. He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.

It is interesting to watch how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [John Randolph of Roanoke's] genius. Everything undergoes a seachange.