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.
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, as quoted in: Egon Schwarz, “Hugo Von Hofmannsthal as a Critic,” Arthur R. Evans (ed.), On Four Modern Humanists (Pr...