REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
1886.
All these things here collected are not mine,
But divers grapes make but one kind of wine;
So I from many learned authors took
The various matters written in this book;
What’s not mine own shall not by me be fathered,
The most part I, in many years, have gathered.
John Taylor, the Water Poet.
“It was because Homer was the most popular poet, that he was most susceptible of the playful honours of the Greek parodist; unless the prototype is familiar to us, a parody is nothing.”
Isaac D’Israeli.