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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Sir Samuel Garth

The critics of a more exalted taste may discover such beauties in the ancient poetry as may escape the comprehension of us pigmies of a more limited genius.

Sir Samuel Garth.

Judgment without vivacity of imagination is too heavy, and like a dress without fancy; and the last without the first is too gay, and but all trimming.

Sir Samuel Garth.

One is under no more obligation to extol everything he finds in the author he translates than a painter is to make every face that sits to him handsome.

Sir Samuel Garth.

Several lines in Virgil are not altogether tunable to a modern ear.

Sir Samuel Garth.