Excerpt from The Quarterly Review, Vol. 129: July and October, 1870
He (peterborough) did not conquer Spain, though he would have conquered it if he had been let alone, and there was no stubborn plain to tame on the river bank at Twickenham but the verses no less vividly illustrate the composition and occupations of the group.
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