"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, May 25, 2021
Commentators
Edward Young (1683-1765), Love of Fame, Satire VII (To Sir Robert Walpole), lines 97-98:
How commentators each dark passage shun
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.