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Excerpt from A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Vol. 12: Containing the Following Translations: Pope's Iliad and Odyssey, West's Pindar, Dryden's Virgil, Persius and Juvenal, Pitt's Aeneid and Rowe's Lucan
Perhaps the mixture of fame Grzecifms and old words, after the manner of Milton, ifedone with out too much afi'et?ation, might not have an ill effeé't in a verfion of this particular work, -which molt of any other feems to require a venerable an tique can. But certainly the ufe of modern terms of war and government, fuch as platoon, campaign, junto, or the like (into which fome of his tran?a tors have fallen) cannot be allowable-g thole only excepted, without which it is impo?ible to treat the fubjeéls in any living language.
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