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in each of which appeareth one continued formed Design from one End to the other, were written in loose Scraps on no settled premeditated Scheme. Horace, we are sure, was of another Opinion, and so was Virgil too, who built his Æneid upon the Model of the Iliad, and the Odysseïs; after all, Tully, whose Relation of this Passage hath given some Colour to this Suggestion, sayeth no more, than that Pisistratus, whom he commendeth for his Learning, and condemneth for his Tyranny, observing the Books of Homer to lie confused and out of Order, placed them in the Method the great Author,
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