Walter Scott on William Julius Mickle

“Mickle, with a vein of great facility, united a power of verbal melody which might have been envied by bards of much greater renown.”

“Mickle's facility of versification was so great, that, being a printer by profession, he frequently put his verses into types without taking the trouble previously to put them into writing; thus uniting the composition of the author with the mechanical operation which typographers call by the same name.”