over-commented

Updated: June 7, 2025

In that case, one may test his sense of race, period and personality by a single quatrain of Landor, who is surely not over-commented upon to-day: "From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass Like little ripples down a sunny river; Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass, Cut down, and up again as blithe as ever."

Bliss Perry - A Study of Poetry