Leopold and Wolfgang by sheer chance arrived too late to take the seats reserved for them on one of the temporary scaffoldings, which collapsed as soon as they had been given a place among courtiers on a balcony. More than fifty people were killed.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Eric Blom, Mozart (1935; rpt. New York: Collier Books, 1966), p. 61: