"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, March 03, 2014
Ingredients of Happiness
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), Gryll Grange, chapter III (on the Reverend Doctor Opimian):
His tastes, in fact, were four: a good library, a good dinner, a pleasant garden, and rural walks.