...and the passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet. . . . Then I consulted a greater genius, (without offence to the manes of...noble author,) I mean Milton; but as he endeavours everywhere to express Homer, whose age had not arrived to that fineness, I found in him a true sublimity,...

...prose. Dryden found in Cowley, 'the Darling of my Youth', 'Points of Wit, and Quirks of Epigram . . . but no elegant turns, either on the word, or on the thought" - Dryden, 'Discourse' (in Wmn,John Dryden and his World, p. 257). n. pindarick Odes: Cowley introduced...