"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, September 03, 2025
A Pleasant Prospect
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The House of the Seven Gables, chapter VII ("The Guest"):
Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
