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Aeneid: Postscript To The Reader
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John; Virgil
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Translation: Dryden, John
Postscript To The Reader
What Virgil wrote in the vigor of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years; struggling with wants, oppress'd with sickness, curb'd in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write; and my judges, if they are not very equitable, already prejudic' d against me, by the lying character which has been given them of my morals. Yet, steady to my principles, and not dispirited with my afflictions, I have, by the blessing of God on my endeavors, overcome all difficulties, and, ...
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