"Virgil's style is an inimitable mixture of the elaborately ornate, and the majestically plain and touching."
— Virgil

January 1, 1970

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William Wordsworth, letter to Lord Lonsdale (17 February 1819), in Letters of the Wordsworth Family from 1787 to 1855, collected and ed. by W. Knight, Vol. II (1907), p. 123