"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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Monday, May 09, 2005
Dr. Johnson on Bloggers
Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Thursday, August 19, 1773):
I wonder, however, that so many people have written, who might have let it alone.