Fellow of _Wadham-College_, and Reader of the POETICAL LECTURES lately founded in that University, by HENRY BIRKHEAD LL.D. sometime Fellow of _All-Souls-College_. The following Lectures, being frequently referred to by the Author of them in the Preface and Notes to his Translation of _Virgil_, were thought proper to be communicated to the World in _English_, that both Works might speak the same Language as well as Sentiment, and address themselves to the same Sett of Readers. Whatever Reasons have been given for translating _Virgil_, and writing an _English_ Comment on him, may be urged in behalf of these _English_ Lectures, which as they are an Illustration of Poetry in general, so are the…
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