"Centuple" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Pantagruel) starts the voyage, and begins to lead the commentator who insists on fixing and interpreting the innumerable real or apparent double, treble, and almost centuple meanings, into a series of dances almost illimitable. As has been suggested more than once, the most reasonable way is probably to regard the whole as an intentional mixture of covert satire, pure fooling, not a little deliberate leading astray, and (serving as vehicle and impelling ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury |
