"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, December 17, 2025
Facts
Robert Burns (1759-1796), "A Dream," lines 30-31, with glosses borrowed from The Canongate Burns:
But Facts are chiels that winna ding,
And downa be disputed.
chiels: fellows
winna ding: will not be upset
downa: cannot