Observations in Illustration of Virgil's Celebrated Fourth Eclogue (Classic Reprint)

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To the original poem, which is prefixed for the accommodation of the classical scholar, I have subjoined, for the English reader, a new poetical translation, as nearly literal as I could render it. This I preferred to a prose translation, although the latter might certainly be rendered more exactly literal, because I wished to endeavour to convey, together with the strict sense of the original, some notion also of its spirit and poetical character; an object not to be at: tained by any translation in prose. For the further benefit of the English reader, to whom I was anxious to render this treatise as intelligible and interesting, if possible, as to the classical scholar, versions are added! Of all quotations occurring in the work.

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