O stay thee, Agib, for my feet deny,
No longer friendly to my life, to fly——
Scott
From the pen of Cowley, such an observation as Secander's, "that his feet were no longer friendly to his life," might have been expected; but Collins rarely committed such violations of simplicity.
Ritson
Pen of Cowley! impudent goose-quill, how darest thou guess what Cowley would have written?
GRAY'S CHURCH-YARD ELEGY
Save where the beetle wheels——
Scott
The beetle was introduced in poetry by Shakspeare * * *. Shakspeare has made the most of his description; indeed, far too much, considering the occasion: