"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, November 11, 2024
Three Months?
W.H.D. Rouse (1863-1950), Machines Or Mind? (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), p. 13:
A grown man, a trained mind, can learn Greek in three months; if he has known it before, in less. And what a world that will open to him!