"If you take from Virgil his diction and metre, what do you leave him?"
— Virgil

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk (8 May 1824), in Specimens of the Table Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (1835), p. 50