Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, tr. Charles Francis Atkinson, Vol. I (1930; rpt. London: Vision Press, 1953), p. 147:
And most probably our century will seem as ghostly and unreal to a later age as the fourteenth century to us.
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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