indoctrines

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Ah, that I had with me my Anatomy of Wit that all-to-be-unparalleled volume that quintessence of human wit that treasury of quaint invention that exquisitively-pleasant-to-read, and inevitably-necessary-to-be-remembered manual, of all that is worthy to be known which indoctrines the rude in civility, the dull in intellectuality, the heavy in jocosity, the blunt in gentility, the vulgar in nobility, and all of them in that unutterable perfection, of human utterance, that eloquence which no other eloquence is sufficient to praise, that art which, when we call it by its own name of Euphuism, we bestow on it its richest panegyric."

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery