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A man cannot command his own motions while he reads this; the very verses are alive; and the reader is transported out of himself.

— Joseph Trapp

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The art and triumph of poetry are in nothing more seen and felt than in moving the passions.

The Preface to The Aeneis of Virgil (1718)

Poetry itself being the music of thoughts and words, as music is the poetry of sounds.

The Preface to The Aeneis of Virgil (1718)

Aurora, from Tithonus' saffron bed
Now rising, sprinkled over the world with light.

The Aeneis of Virgil, Translated Into Blank Verse (1718)

Of mine the world will and ought to be judge, whatever I say or think, and its judgment in these matters is never erroneous.

The Preface to The Aeneis of Virgil (1718)

Her Amazonian files with lunar shields
Penthesilea leads, and in the midst
Of thousand storms, beneath her naked pap
Her golden belt she buckles, warlike maid,
And, though a virgin, dares engage with men.

The Aeneis of Virgil, Translated Into Blank Verse (1718)

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