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TRANSLATED BY

PHILIP FRANCIS, D.D.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

TRANSLATIONS OF VARIOUS ODES, &c

BY

BEN JONSON, COWLEY, MILTON, DRYDEN, POPE ADDISON, SWIFT BENTLEY, CHATTERTON

G WAKEFIELD

PORSON, BYRON, &c.

AND

BY SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT POETS OF THE PRESENT DAY.

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The version of Dr. Francis is highly Horatian: it is moral without dulness, gay and spirited with propriety, and tender without whining. Hence, few translations have gone through more editions, or met with greater applause from the public. -MONTHLY REVIEW.

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