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vi The brief Memoir of Virgil contains every fact necessary to be known by the general student, and nothing more. In criticising a poet, whose taste, rather than his invention, is to be commended, it is easy to offend many, and please none; to draw comparisons, but fail of conviction.

THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY,

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