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.
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Taste of Heavenly Things
John Lyly, “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit [1578],” in Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & his England (London: George Routledge &...
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, as quoted in: Egon Schwarz, “Hugo Von Hofmannsthal as a Critic,” Arthur R. Evans (ed.), On Four Modern Humanists (Pr...
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Roger Scruton, Why Beauty Matters , 2009: Ornaments liberate us from the tyranny of the useful, and satisfy our need for harmony; in a stran...
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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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