The following line occurs both in Pope’s Dunciad and Addison’s Campaign:—
Rides on the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Ben Jonson borrowed his celebrated ballad To Celia,—
Drink to me only with thine eyes, &c.,
from Philostratus, a Greek poet, who flourished at the court of the Emperor Severus.
In Milton’s description of the lazar-house occurs the following confused metaphor:—
Sight so deform what heart of rock could long