"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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Sunday, November 05, 2017
Pastoral
Jules Renard, Journal (November 25, 1887; tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget):
It is in the heart of the city that one writes the most inspired
pages about the country.
C'est en pleine ville qu'on écrit les plus belles pages sur la campagne.