Note 273 — THE WORKS OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE.
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Walsh might have found an hundred poets of his own time, who would have expressed themselves as warmly as Horace on a similar occasion. Our Dryden, for example:
Tell good Barzillai, thou canst sing no more; And tell thy soul, she should have fled before.
But neither Horace nor Dryden expected to die a day the sooner for these ardent expressions; and, in extolling the gratitude of the ancients at the expence of the moderns, Walsh only gives another instance of the cant which distinguishes his compositions.