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Horace and Virgil
liness of Expression, however they exceeded him in Majesty of Thought, in Closeness and Exactness of Style. And for Horace, my Lord, who was an humble Servant of the Ladies, as well as he, after we have acknowledged him a wonderful Genius, of a peculiar Happiness of Expression both in the sublime, and familiar Way, we must ascribe the Softness and Easiness of his Style[errata 1] to the Court and Love. In short, my Lord, Ovid was a Gentleman, and the others not, his good Breeding was natural to him from his Infancy; theirs was acquired in their riper Years, and would never sit so handsomely upon
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