In the 1814 novel Waverly, the character Baron Bradwardine quotes Virgil incessantly. After a while I realised that Walter Scott was mocking gently exactly this type of person, who talks in references. It's just that, many decades before a Scotsman was to invent the television, he's quoting classical Greek instead.
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In the 1814 novel Waverly, the character Baron Bradwardine quotes Virgil incessantly. After a while I realised that Walter Scott was mocking gently exactly this type of person, who talks in references. It's just that, many decades before a Scotsman was to invent the television, he's quoting classical Greek instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_(novel)