Salad for the solitary and the social: . lived in the sixteenth cen-tury, pretended, according to Scaliger, to find all the Bible inHomer. Du Guere wrote an eulogium on Wigs. Erasmusamused himself by discussing The Praise of Folly., in his workentitled Morim Encomitim^ which, for the sake of the pun, he 188 BOOK CRAFT. dedicated to Sir Thomas More. Pierrius Treatise on Beards^Homers war between The Frogs and Mice, and Lucians dis-sertation on A Fly, present a curious triumvirate of classic taste;and Grays Ode on The Death of a Cat, Popes verses on ALock of Hair, and Swifts Meditation on a Broo
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Salad for the solitary and the social: . lived in the sixteenth cen-tury, pretended, according to Scaliger, to find all the Bible inHomer. Du Guere wrote an eulogium on Wigs. Erasmusamused himself by discussing The Praise of Folly., in his workentitled Morim Encomitim^ which, for the sake of the pun, he 188 BOOK CRAFT. dedicated to Sir Thomas More. Pierrius Treatise on Beards^Homers war between The Frogs and Mice, and Lucians dis-sertation on A Fly, present a curious triumvirate of classic taste;and Grays Ode on The Death of a Cat, Popes verses on ALock of Hair, and Swifts Meditation on a Broomstick, mayserve as their companions in modern times. Goldsmith alsosung his Elegy on a mad dog, and Cowper attuned his lute toa dead cat. Having reached such a climax, we conclude our chapterupon Book Craft—a theme of exhaustless interest to all whohave any affinity of taste for books, and the intellectual sweetsthey contain, —since our too lavish indulgence in such refinedepicurism might challenge our mental digestion too severely..