Translations of Homer.
Hexameters and Pentameters.
These lame hexameters the strong-wing’d music of Homer !
No—but a most burlesque barbarous experiment.
When was a harsher sound ever heard, ye Muses, in England ?
When did a frog coarser croak upon our Helicon ?
Hexameters no worse than daring Germany gave us,
Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters !