"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, March 15, 2023
Typographical Cleanliness
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, "Brief Mention," American Journal of Philology 31.1 (1910) 108-117 (at 113):
I am one of those prejudiced persons who
distrust any philological work that sins grossly against the
rudimentary virtue of typographical cleanliness...