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The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 14

Note 86 — TO THE MOST HONOURABLE JOHN, LORD MARQUIS OF NORMANBY, EARL OF MULGRAVE,[28] &c. AND KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER. (continued 2)

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Nevertheless, our author, long before undertaking the translation of Virgil, had given a noble paraphrase of these lines in the Hind's address to the Panther:

This mean retreat did mighty Pan contain; } Be emulous of him, and pomp disdain, } And dare not to debase your soul to gain. } Vol. X. p. 184.

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