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A collection of short essays and anecdotal sketches that assemble historical, biographical, and antiquarian material drawn from diverse sources. Entries present portraits of memorable individuals, accounts of notable events and last moments, and descriptions of monuments, libraries, coins, and curiosities of natural history and horticulture. The pieces also touch on language, literature, social customs, and scholarly practices, often citing authorities in notes. Arranged as miscellanea for instruction and light entertainment, the compilation emphasizes factual reporting over interpretation so readers can form their own judgments.
The present use of this word is strictly consonant with that of the ancients, who applied it to the giving a ridiculous turn to passages in Homer and the tragic Poets. There are many in Aristophanes. One of the happiest modern instances is the parody of the speech of Sarpedon to Glaucus in the Rape of the Lock. The genealogy of Agamemnon’s sceptre is also parodied in the same poem, canto 5, v. 87.