This collection of prose arguments and vituperations and Versified epigrams, all larded and loaded with quotations from all the Latin and Greek authors whom Alfieri was busy spelling out, does certainly contain many things which, old as they are, strike even us with the force of living contempt and indignation.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
And Darwin's Versified Botanical Garden has been a standing joke.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
One answer is the Essay on Man, in which Pope Versified the deism which he learned from Bolingbroke, and which was characteristic of the upper circle generally.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen