As time and sequels well shall prove. My ringe can say no more.
Parallel Passages.
INCLUDING IMITATIONS, PLAGIARISMS, AND ACCIDENTAL COINCIDENCES.
Pretensions to originality are ludicrous.—Byron’s Letters.
An apple cleft in two is not more twin
Than these two creatures.—Twelfth Night, V. 1.
Milton “borrowed” other poets’ thoughts, but he did not borrow as gipsies borrow children, spoiling their features that they may not be recognized. No, he returned them improved. Had he “borrowed” your coat, he would have restored it with a new nap upon it!—Leigh Hunt.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.—Goldsmith: Hermit.