"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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Saturday, February 06, 2010
Talk
George Gissing, By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy, chapter 10 (Children of the Soil):
In every country and every age those talk most who have least to say that is worth saying.