"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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Friday, March 23, 2018
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), Maria Stuart I.8.35-36 (tr. Leedham White):
We cannot hinder men
From thinking what they will.
Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren,
zu denken, was sie wollen.