Note I.6 — LONGINUS
H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell translation
The examples of bombast used to be drawn as late as Spurden’s translation (1836), from Lee, from
Troilus and Cressida
, and
The Taming of the Shrew
. Cowley and Crashaw furnished instances of conceits; Waller, Young, and Hayley of frigidity; and Darwin of affectation.
“What beaux and beauties crowd the gaudy groves, And woo and win their vegetable loves”—
a phrase adopted—“vapid vegetable loves”—by the Laureate in “The Talking Oak.”