Excerpt from The Poems of Horace, Consisting of Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles: Rendred in English and Paraphrased by Several Persons
But the frequent Qlotation of him by all firtflf Ingenious men; and the Hault-gonfi which the wit and truth of hi: excellent flying: gave, made me languifb till I had broken through all the difficulties which my Imbecillity contended with, and thrown my elf on thi: audacious adventure.
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