text:  So gracefully and so easily indeed has he wielded this metre and with so flexible so delicate and so masterly a hand that we could not refrain from attempting to imitate it in our English version; for we considered that it is impossible to say how much of the peculiar _character_ of a poet's writings depends upon the colouring or rather the _touch_--if we may borrow a phrase from the vocabulary of the critic in painting--of the metre