celandi

Updated: May 11, 2025

We cannot, indeed, be sure that what has given him his hold upon posterity is what gave him his popularity with his contemporaries. On the contrary, it is, perhaps, more probable that he owed his first success with the public of his day to those eccentricities which are for us a little too consciously eccentric those artifices which fail a little too conspicuously in the ars celandi artem.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - Sterne