"Hobbling John" took up the thread of his predecessor's poem in the spirit of a wit and an encyclopaedist.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
As a matter of fact, quite a number of his plots are swamped by what he forces into them with the zeal of an encyclopaedist.
"Balzac"
Frederick Lawton
I told him about it, I used to see a good deal of him; and, Chevalier of several orders though he was, he only laughed; he was an encyclopaedist.
"The Thirteen"
Honore de Balzac