He who wishes to see the beauty of the Queen we call Language must stand where Gyges stood and gaze as Gyges gazed.See here for the shocking story of Gyges and the Queen (wife of Candaules).
"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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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
The Beauty of the Queen
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 23.2 (1902) 231-235 (at 231):