Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister, pt. I., 1st letter to Sylvia:
I have lived a whole Day
and yet no Letter from Sylvia.
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.
Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister, pt. I., 1st letter to Sylvia:
I have lived a whole Day
and yet no Letter from Sylvia.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise , tr. John Hughes (London, 1776), II., Heloise to Abelard, 87-88: If a picture, which is but a mute represent...