Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and Instructive
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780766134126
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Books & Reading; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: IN No. 59 of the Spectator, Addison, descanting on the different species of false wit, observes, "The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists, or letter droppers of antiquity, that would take an exception, without any reason, against some particular letter in the alphabet, so as not to admit it once in a whole poem.