Note 631 — Chapter I · FROM ADDISON TO JOHNSON. (continued 2)
Reading edition
“The warmest admirers of the great Mantuan poet can extol him for little more than the skill with which he has ... united the beauties of the Iliad and Odyssey,” and he adds a longish exposure of the way in which Virgil, determined to imitate at all costs, has put in his borrowed matter without regard to keeping.