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Excerpt from The Cat-Fight: A Mock Heroic Poem, Supported With Copious Extracts From Ancient and Modern Classic Authors From these Poets the excerptions to be copious, em bracing a number Of entire episodes, as well as detach able, distinct, and sublime parts from their main plots. Well calculated and arranged for those in school or out, who are fond of acquiring elegant, but unhackneyed pieces by heart. But from those more familiar to the generality of readers, as Homer, Virgil, Milton, Pope. And Dryden, no more to be copied than barely to explain. 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.