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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.


"Capitoque simul Fonteius, ad unguem
Factus homo."
Hor. Lib. 1. Sat. v. 32-33.


"— My feet are set
To leave the pleasant fields and farms."
In Memoriam, ci. 6.

The dulcia linquimus arva of Virgil's first Eclogue.