Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
Source: Proverbial Philosophy, `Of Reading'
-- C S Calverley, (Dec 21 1831-1884), English poet, porodist, classical scholar, lawyer; The works of Charles Stuart Blayds [ps. C. S. Calverley] include Verses And Translations, 1862 and Fly Leaves, 1866.