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Excerpt from The Iliad of Homer, Vol. 1 This observation may appear to savour of satyrical censorious ness, but I believe it to be extremely just. That Wild and exube rant genius, Dryden, has been of late years much undervalued amidst the public admiration of mere regular and chastised writers but has invariably commanded the veneration of consummate judges. See Dr. Johnson's incomparable parallel of him and our poet. In the life of Pope, and letter li. In the 4th section of Gray's Memoirs by Mason. W. Quod, ut vitium est, ita copias vitium Which, though it 'i be a fault, is the fault of innate fertility, says Quintilian: an author, with whom our poet appears, no less from this preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.