To keep this on a high intellectual plane, Proust was clearly inspired by a more-or-less similar passage in the Dante Paradisio (for the unread, the third canticle of the Divine Comedy) Canto 26.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, glib was first used in 1598 by Marston: âoeHeâ(TM)s a God that can doe villany With a good grace, and glib facilityâ, and has been used ever since. Just being picky.
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To keep this on a high intellectual plane, Proust was clearly inspired by a more-or-less similar passage in the Dante Paradisio (for the unread, the third canticle of the Divine Comedy) Canto 26.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, glib was first used in 1598 by Marston: âoeHeâ(TM)s a God that can doe villany With a good grace, and glib facilityâ, and has been used ever since. Just being picky.