SOUNDS FAMILIAR?

ben trovato says: "[puff] this apprentice is working overtime, filling the buckets of mirth to overflowing pending the sorcerer's return. Have just unearthed this one in the broom cupboard:

In 1878 Disraeli called his political arch-rival Gladstone "a sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command in interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself ."

Remind you of anyone? No prizes for this.