He has already a secure place in general literature, having been Laureated by no less a poet than Bryant, and invested with a lasting human charm in the sunny page of Irving, and is the only one of our songsters, I believe, that the mockingbird cannot parody or imitate.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
They invented for him a new kind of Laureated honour, and in the intermixture of the foliage raised to Apollo, slily inserted the vine and the cabbage leaves, which he evidently deserved, from his extreme dexterity in clearing the pontiff's dishes and emptying his goblets.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)"
Isaac D'Israeli