Crossword-Solution: ANECDOTAGE 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies.

Morris dispassionately than he could criticise his old self and the friends whom he shall never see again, till he meets them "Beyond the sphere of time, And sin, and grief's control, Serene in changeless prime Of body and of soul." To write of one's own "adventures among books" may be to provide anecdotage more or less trivial, more or less futile, but, at least, it is to write historically.

For one who nourished a natural weakness for what was called history, the whole of British literature in the nineteenth century was antiquarianism or anecdotage, for no one except Buckle had tried to link it with ideas, and commonly Buckle was regarded as having failed.

Alone with his host and hostess, Otway would have found the occasion rather solemn, and have wished it over, but Arnold's melodious voice, his sprightly discussion and anecdotage, his frequent laughter, charmed the guest into self-oblivion.

For the rest, I need not return on my tracks and explain once more such shallow mysteries as the “Silence of Philip Henslowe,” and the lack of literary anecdotage about Shakespeare in a stupendously illiterate country town.