“And so much for Mr. Dryden; whose burial was the same as his life, variety and not of a piece: the quality and mob, farce and heroics: the sublime and ridiculous mixed in a piece; great Cleopatra in a hackney coach.”
—George Farquhar
7 hours ago
2 comments:
Clio in hackney coach: history in a hackey sack. Snap!
very-Pavement-esque title... methinks you're reading the entire history of English literature again. Norton whore!
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