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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 78 — WINDSOR FOREST.

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This thought of the quiver sounding is found both in Homer and Virgil.—Wakefield.

Pope remembered Dryden's translation of Virgil, Æneis, xi. 968:

Diana's arms upon her shoulder sounds.

And xi. 1140:

A gilded quiver from his shoulder sounds.

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