text: '" "The Bluidy Mackenyie " reciting to Dryden many "beautiful turns" from Waller and Denham--and Dryden calling the poetasters "those two fathers of our English poetry " in the same page where he is writing of Milton! At Sir George's behest in Cowley even in his "Davideis " an heroic poem he sought in vain for "elegant turns either on the word or on the thought;" and his search was equally fruitless in the "Paradise Lost"--for as Milton "endeavours every where to express Homer whose age had not yet arrived to that fineness I found in him a true sublimity lofty thoughts which were clothed with admirable Grecisms and ancient words which he had been digging from the mines of Chaucer and Spenser; and which with all their rusticity had somewhat of venerable in them