Mark how it smells, methinks a real painThis rhyming couplet could be aptly quoted in certain uncomfortable social situations, when other types of painful odors infect the atmosphere.
Is by its odour thrown upon my brain.
"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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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
A Painful Odor
Richard Ames, A Farewell to Wine. By a Quondam Friend to the Bottle, lines 62-63, in The Bacchanalian Sessions; or the Contention of Liquors: with A Farewell to Wine. By the Author of the Search after Claret, &c. To which is added A Satyrical Poem on one who had injur'd his Memory. By a Friend (London: Printed for E. Hawkins, 1693), p. 22: