"The late Earl of Lauderdale sent me over his new translation of the Æneis, which he had ended before I ingag'd in the…"

"The names alone of Vicars and Ogilby (the latter of whom has equally violated the Muse of Homer and of Virgil) will s…"

"His Translation is pretty near to the Original; tho' not so close, as [its] Brevity would make one imagine; and it su…"

"Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mar…"

"O to be like my Lord! Yet must I be Mine own self too, And to the nature He bestowed on me Be frankly true.The olive …"

"There is much tenderness and beauty in many of the poems, but the writers wrote in a language which they did not comm…"

"I would beg any possible, but improbable, reader who desires to peruse the Anthology as a whole, to read first the ep…"

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"There is a sort of republican plainness and simplicity in their address, quite in harmony with the institutions of th…"

"The devout and politically free inhabitant of New England is a kind of Laocoön who makes not the least effort to esca…"