Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes 1749 (his own imitation of Juvenal's tenth satire, from which I quoted in the previous post):
. . . New Sorrow rises as the Day returns, . . .
Year chases Year, Decay pursues Decay, . . .
A cornucopia of elegant excerpts, a collectanea of passages, a florilegium of ideas, a gallimaufry of aperçus, musing flowers of yore, an anthologia of verse (a Parnassus), an omnium gatherum of etymologies and origins, all singled out carefully by hand.
Hermann Hesse, In the Mist = Im Nebel , tr. Harry Steinhauer: Strange, to wander in the mist! Every bush and stone is lo...
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