"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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Monday, September 05, 2022
Oath
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Chapter LXIII:
By the tomb-stone of Lucian, if it is in being; — if not, why then by his ashes! by the ashes of my dear Rabelais, and dearer Cervantes!