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Now on a towering arch of waves we rise,
Heaved on the bounding billows, to the skies.
Then, as the roaring surge retreating fell,
We shoot down headlong to the depths of hell.

— Christopher Pitt The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

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To all, proportioned terms he must dispense,
And make the sound a picture of the sense.

Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

A mighty tree, that bears a golden bough.

The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

The shrill echoes ring amidst the skies.

The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

Be sure from nature never to depart;
To copy nature is the task of art.
The noblest poets own her sovereign sway,
And ever follow where she leads the way.

Vida's Art of Poetry (1725)

I proved unfaithful to my former spouse,
And now I reap the fruits of broken vows!

The Æneid of Virgil (1740)

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