"Surprisingness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... posterity as contributors to "the princely pleasures of Kennelworth," and the two latter as managers of the Norwich entertainments. They vied with each other in the gorgeousness, the pedantry and the surprisingness of their devices; but the palm was surely due to him of the number who had the glory of contriving a battle between certain allegorical personages, in the midst of which, "legs and arms of men, well ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin |
