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On Milton

“Three poets in three different ages born,      Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.      The first in loftiness of soul surpassed,      The next in majesty, in both the last.      The force of nature could no further go;      To make a third she joined the other two.”   From Cowper’s Table Talk: [...]

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Virgil

Virgil, called also by his surname Maro, from whose poem of the Aeneid we have taken the story of Aeneas, was one of the great poets who made the reign of the Roman emperor, Augustus, so celebrated, under the name of the Augustan age.  Virgil was born in Mantua in the year 70 B. C.  [...]

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