miscellany

• In this fog and miscellany, and until the heavenly sun shall give me one beam, will not you, friend and joy of so many years, send me a quiet line or two now and then to say that you still smoke your pipe in peace, side by side with wife and brother also well and smoking, or able to smoke? —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
• The miscellany, among other minor poems of Dryden, contained many of his occasional prologues and epilogues, the composition of which his necessity had rendered so important a branch of income, that, in the midst of his splendour of satirical reputation, the poet was obliged to chaffer about the scanty recompence which he drew from such petty sources. —  The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Vol. I
• A miscellany is a collection of various literary productions kinds (poems, letters, essays, illustrations) gathered in a single volume, often united thematically rather than formally. —  The Millions
• King's book is a profound meditation on his habit of gathering miscellany-what many would consider junk. —  The Chicago Blog
• A New Mexican miscellany, offering eclectic linkage since 1999. —  dangerousmeta!

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