The quantity of work scarcely distinguishable from that of the worst passages in Mr.Tennyson, Mr.
Browning, and Mr.Swinburne, seems to be limited only by the supply of stationery at the disposal of practised performers.

That which makes the imitations of Pope prominent is partly the extent of his sovereignty; the vast number of writers who confined themselves exclusively to his style; and partly the fact that what is easily imitable in him is so conspicuous an element of the whole.

The rigid framework which he adopted is easily definable with mathematical precision.

The difference between the best work of Pope and the ordinary work of his followers is confined within narrow limits, and not easily perceived at a glance.

The difference between blank verse in the hands of its few masters and in the hands of a third-rate imitator strikes the ear in every line.