"His book may continue its existence as long as it is the clandestine refuge of schoolboys."
— Joseph Trapp

January 1, 1970

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ClergyPoets from EnglandAnglicans from the United KingdomUniversity of Oxford faculty
Original Language: English

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Samuel Johnson on Trapp's translation of Virgil, in Lives of the English Poets (1781), 'The Life of Dryden'