I remember a distinguished philologist in Vienna used to open his course with an introductory lecture in which he always announced, "Gentlemen, in the interest of science we must accept this fact: that in medicine or philology there is nothing indecent."Hat tip: Ian Jackson.
"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, June 06, 2017
Nothing Indecent
Christian Gauss (1878-1951), The Papers of Christian Gauss. Edited by Katherine Gauss Jackson and Hiram Haydn (New York: Random House, 1957), p. 80: