英语词汇last infirmity of noble minds的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

last infirmity of noble minds. That infirmity is the desire for fame, according to the proverb, being the last vice an otherwise noble person retains as he grows old. Though Milton said this in his elegy Lycidas (1637) on the death of his old friend Ed- ward King, the poem “Sir John van Olden Barnevalt” called glory “that last infirmity of noble minds” 16 years before. An amazed Swinburne was sure that this was “the most inexplica- ble coincidence in the whole range of literature,” but the idea was simply in the air at the time and can be traced back even earlier. Incidentally, both Bartlett and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations still credit the words to Milton.

词汇	last infirmity of noble minds
词源	last infirmity of noble minds. That infirmity is the desire for fame, according to the proverb, being the last vice an otherwise noble person retains as he grows old. Though Milton said this in his elegy Lycidas (1637) on the death of his old friend Ed- ward King, the poem “Sir John van Olden Barnevalt” called glory “that last infirmity of noble minds” 16 years before. An amazed Swinburne was sure that this was “the most inexplica- ble coincidence in the whole range of literature,” but the idea was simply in the air at the time and can be traced back even earlier. Incidentally, both Bartlett and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations still credit the words to Milton.
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