An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins; who after he had been many years a... [Three ... of quotations in Latin] (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"TO Lament the Dead in Verse, having been even from the Dayes of David until Now, in some sort almost as Common as Death it self, an Apology for that thing at this time is altogether superstuous: Nor have the Noblest Hands disdained to scan Potetical measures on their Fingers, tho' an Annatus has derided a Twisfor not counting that Exercise beneath him. But there seems more needful an Excuse for the meaness of this Composure, which-is born before its Time from a Brain disus'd to such Performances; in which I have been so farr from the accuracy of Virgil, who having laid out eleven years upon his AEneids, after all judged them not polished enough to be published, that a few stolen hours were all I had to shape..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.