"Death, judgment, heaven, and hell! Think, Christians, think! You stand on vast eternity's dread brink. Faith and repe…"

"The art and triumph of poetry are in nothing more seen and felt than in moving the passions."

"However poetry may have been dishonoured by the follies of some and the vices of others, the abuse or corruption of t…"

"Poetry itself being the music of thoughts and words, as music is the poetry of sounds."

"He who says he values no translation of this or that poem because he understands the original, has indeed no true rel…"

"If some gentlemen are resolved that blank verse shall be prose, they have my free leave to enjoy their saying, provid…"

"Of mine the world will and ought to be judge, whatever I say or think, and its judgment in these matters is never err…"

"Arms and the man I sing who first from Troy Came to the Italian and Lavinian shores, Exiled by fate; much tossed on l…"

"Her Amazonian files with lunar shields Penthesilea leads, and in the midst Of thousand storms, beneath her naked pap …"

"Adjectis istiusmodi notis nitori paginae detractum fore existimavimus."