Morier began to quote Latin before the ladies had left the room, and quoted it by no means to the purpose.

After their departure he fell to repeating Virgil, choosing passages which everybody else knows and does not repeat.

He, though he tried to repeat them, did not know them, and could not get on without my prompting.

Sotheby was full of his translation of Homer's Iliad, some specimens of which he has already published.

It is a complete failure; more literal than that of Pope, but still tainted with the deep radical vice of Pope's version, a thoroughly modern and artificial manner.