“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”

— Charles Lamb

My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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