 “ Every language has its idiom , not only of words and phrases , but of customs and manners , which cannot be represented in the tongue of another nation , especially of a nation so distant in time and place , without constraint and difficulty ; of this sort , in the present instance , are the curfew bell , the Gothic Church , with its monuments , organs and anthems , the texts of Scripture , etc . There are certain images , which , though drawn from common nature , and everywhere obvious , yet strike us as foreign to the turn and genius of Latin verse ; the beetle that flies in the evening , to a Roman , I guess , would have appeared too mean an object for poetry . ” 
