"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).
With about, against, at, of (something or someone disliked, distrusted, etc.), or for (something desired).Id., sense 4:
To speak or write about someone or something with great enthusiasm or admiration. In early use with upon; now frequently with about, of, over.