The world usually does not recognize the original poet and accepts a poet of the second order as one of the first order, but posterity adjusts the matter.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
When the situation at last becomes clear, he perceives a very handsome old lady in a close black travelling-hat, a pair of blue spectacles shielding her eyes from the dust, and wearing a dust-cloak which may once have been black, while beside her-he adjusts his eye-glass in his eye-assuredly Stella does not remind him of the 'hysterical tree-frog' of frightful memory, but of some one else, for the life of him he cannot remember whom.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
The lady who slept all night upon deck, enveloped in the folds of your Astracan cloak, scarcely deigns an acknowledgment of you, as she adjusts her ringlets before the looking-glass over the stove in the cabin.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)