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John Dryden Quotes: Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
         

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.


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