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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13

Note 10 — TRANSLATIONS FROM JUVENAL.

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"Would it be imagined," says Dr Johnson, "that, of this rival to antiquity, all the satires were little personal invectives, and that his longest composition was a song of eleven stanzas? The blame, however, of this exaggerated praise falls on the encomiast, not upon the author; whose performances are, what they pretend to be, the effusions of a man of wit; gay, vigorous, and airy."

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