"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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Thursday, May 20, 2021
Evening Amusements
Evening Amusements, a woodcut (c. 1820), reproduced in Jane C. Nylander, Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home 1760-1860 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), p. 220:
