"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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Thursday, September 16, 2010
What Did It Produce?
William Cowper, letter to John Newton (Sunday, July 27, 1783):
I look back to the past week, and say, what did it produce? I ask the same question of the week preceding, and duely receive the same answer from both—Nothing.