Excerpt from Translations of Poems, Ancient and Modern
Whatever may be the merits, or the defects, of these Translations, I offer them, with sincere diflidence, not to the ordeal of public criticism, but to the indulgent accept ance of personal friends; among whom I' am proud to euro], and to be allowed to inscribe on my opening page.
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