"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, July 01, 2013
Horace and I
John Ruskin, letter to Charles Eliot Norton (January 6, 1862):
I'm beginning to learn a little Latin and Greek for the first time in my life, and find that Horace and I are quite of a mind about things in general.