By this means they talked together across a whole Continent, and conveyed their Thoughts to one another in an Instant over Cities or Mountains, Seas or Desarts.
"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, November 28, 2017
Prediction of Email Etc.
Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 119 (Tuesday, July 28, 1713), in The Guardian, ed. John Calhoun Stephens (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1982), pp. 398-401 (at 400):