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TO
CHRISTOPHER NEVILE, Esq; Junr.
- Dear Nephew,
I Take the liberty to offer you in this public manner what was originally undertaken for your private use.
My intention was, you may remember, to excite you to a careful examination of the most polished poem of Antiquity; which, though adorned with every striking beauty of language and imagery, is, I fear, not enough considered.
This neglect may indeed be imputed to the seeming severity of it's didactic form, and perhaps in some measure to it's very perfection:
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