Indulging in the studies of inglorious leisure.
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Dryden’s Virgil (1697)—Affecting studies of less noisy praise. | Said of the author’s composition of his Georgics. The poet intimates that while Cæsar was pursuing his high destiny in arms, he (Virgil) was passing his time at Naples, in the pleasing but inglorious pursuit of his own peculiar studies. | Choosing a subject