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cellany, and from it Mr. Dry den has taken six or seven 

 verses ; while the greater part of it has been transferred, 

 without acknowledgment, into Lauderdale's Virgil. 



**■ The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus is peculiarly inte- 

 resting, being from Mr. Dryden's pen, and varying fre- 

 quently from the published translation. It contains some 

 hemistich verses, which the poet, at a later period, con- 

 demned ; comparing them to " frogs and serpents in the 

 Nile, half in life, half mud." 



" I regret that the limits of my paper do not admit of 

 any extracts from this Episode." 



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