Meanings
- humorousnot comparablerareOverrun with pilgrims.
Mr. Lockhart thinks there was no literary shrine ever so bepilgrimed, except Ferney in Voltaire’s time, who, however, was not half so accessible.
1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott” in The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art XXXIII (May–August 1838), page 71
Origin
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