Facetiae
Usage examples for Facetiae:
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22.
Facetiae
Curiosa,
Books
on
Gallantry.
"The Book-Hunter at Home", P. B. M. Allan.
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Some
there
were,
no
doubt,
who
perceived
the
influence
of
Rabelais
in
the
incessant
digressions
and
the
burlesque
of
philosophy;
others,
it
may
be,
found
a
reminder
of
Burton
in
the
parade
of
learning;
and
yet
a
few
others,
the
scattered
students
of
French
facetiae
of
the
fourteenth
and
fifteenth
centuries,
may
have
read
the
broad
jests
with
a
feeling
that
they
had "
seen
something
like
it
before."
"Sterne", H.D. Traill.
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The
truth
is
that
Boz,
the
engenderer
of
these
facetiae
apart
from
his
literary
gift,
was
one
of
the
most
brilliant,
capable
young
fellows
of
his
generation.
"Bardell v. Pickwick", Percy Fitzgerald.
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Perhaps,
however,
the
first
two
would
be
classed
more
properly
with
No.
22-
Facetiae
and
Curiosa,
leaving
Ballads
only
under
this
heading.
"The Book-Hunter at Home", P. B. M. Allan.