IMITATIONS OF CLASSICAL WRITERS.
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eighteenth books of the "Iliad" display a critical knowledge of Greek, rare even among professed scholars.
A few allusions to the Greek and Roman writers, together with one or two imitations of more modern poets, I have collected here.
IMITATIONS OF AND ALLUSIONS TO CLASSICAL AND OTHER WRITERS.
"I called him Crichton, for he seem'd
All perfect, finish'd to the finger-nail."
Edwin Morris, or The Lake.
All perfect, finish'd to the finger-nail."
Edwin Morris, or The Lake.
"Capitoque simul Fonteius, ad unguem
Factus homo."
Hor. Lib. 1. Sat. v. 32-33.
Factus homo."
Hor. Lib. 1. Sat. v. 32-33.
"— My feet are set
To leave the pleasant fields and farms."
In Memoriam, ci. 6.
To leave the pleasant fields and farms."
In Memoriam, ci. 6.
The dulcia linquimus arva of Virgil's first Eclogue.
