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" I could never have been able to have done any thing at this age, when the fire of poetry is commonly extinguished in other men. Yet Virgil has given me the example of Entellus for my encouragement : when he was well heated, the younger champion could... "
The Works of the English Poets: Virgil, trans. by Dryden - Page 292
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...when he was well heated, the younger champion could not stand before him. And we find the elder 10 contended not for the gift, but for the honour : nee...the air of the country which produces gold is never wholesome. I had long since considered that the way to please 15 the best judges is not to translate...
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