"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, September 13, 2019
Suggestive Adverbs: Here and There
William Shakespeare (?), The Passionate Pilgrim 4, lines 7-8:
To win his heart, she toucht him here and there;
Touches so soft still conquer chastity.