"Ogilby, the favourite of Pope's schoolboy days, and the banker on whom he not unfrequently drew for rhymes while composing his own translation, though a faithful interpreter of the Greek, ranks as an epic poet below Sir Richard Blackmore."
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John Conington, "The Poetry of Pope", in Oxford Essays (1855), p. 32
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John Ogilby
John Ogilby (17 November 1600 – 4 September 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer.
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