Like the older writers of the sonnet collections generally, Drummond intersperses his quatorzains with madrigals, lyrical pieces of various lengths, and even with what he calls "songs,"-that is to say, long poems in the heroic couplet.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
His great aim was always to make a book: he swells his volumes with digressions, intersperses many ridiculous stories, and applies all the repartees he collected from old novel-writers to modern characters.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli
Yet one cannot but regret the satire on Rousseau with which he intersperses them, and which is not always felicitous.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley