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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 35: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; Pope's Homer, the Iliad, Volume 1
Means for their invention in having enlarged his circle, but for their judgment in having contrac'ted it. For when the mode of learning changed in following ages, and theme was delivered in a plainer manner; it then became as reafonablc in the more modern poets to lay it ahdc, as it was in Homer to make ufe of it. And perhaps it was no unhappy circumftance for Virgil, that there was not in his tune that demand upon him of fo great an invention, as might be capable of furnilhing all thofe allegorical parts of a poem.
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