"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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Saturday, November 04, 2023
Decided and Outspoken Views
Anthony Kenny, A Path from Rome (1985; rpt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 95 (on William Theodore Heard):
He had decided and outspoken views on a variety of topics from dental surgery to the history of cheese.