"Our successors (for you and I are now old enough in authorship to use this term) are falling into the same faults as the Roman poets after the Augustan age, and the Italians after the golden season of their poetry. They are overlabouring their productions, and overloading them with ornament, so that all parts are equally prominent, everywhere glare and glitter, and no keeping and no repose. Henry Milman has spoilt his Samor in this way. It is full of power and of beauty, but too full of them."
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Robert Southey to Walter Scott (11 March 1819), quoted in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. Vol. IV, ed. Charles Cuthbert Southey (1850), p. 338
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Henry Hart Milman
Henry Hart Milman (November 10, 1791 – September 24, 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic.
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