Some wag relates how he read it a month ago, having come into the garden for that purpose; and then revenged himself by dropping it through a crevice in a tree, and enjoying a picnic lunch and a chapter of "rabelais" on the grass close by.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
He also, strange to relate, found no ecstasy in Meredith or the later Hardy novels, and in no intellectual productions marked with liberal thought except those of rabelais.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
We think of rabelais, Swift, Voltaire, Anatole France and Samuel Butler.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell