"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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Friday, January 30, 2026
A Prig
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), "To Be Filed for Reference," Plain Tales from the Hills (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), pp. 338-350 (at 347):
As an Oxford man, he struck me as a prig: he was always throwing his education about.