Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, Vol. 22: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical; Containing the First Volume of Dryden's Virgil Nor will his birth renew the ancient jar; On thofe Greek cities we {hall look with fcorn, And in our Britain think the Poet born. 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.