Excerpt from Virgil's Husbandry, or an Essay on the Georgics: Being the First Book, Translated Into English Verse, to Which Are Added the Latin d104, and Mr. Dryden's Version, With Notes Critical, and Rustick

T H B Meannefs of Mr. Dryden's Style was owing to the Lownefs of his Imagination on this Subjefi, of which he had but very flight Concepti ons, or rather was perfefily ignorant. This made him frequently fall into the rolfefi of all Millakes; which was to exprel's the 'hing (poken of in the mofi proper or vulgar Terms: He was fond of thawing his Learning in a manner that V: R or L was alham'd of and for the fame reafon, when V: a or L defcribes the matter in Hand by fome remarkable Peculiarity, Mr. Dryden, t of the Beauty of his Author, runs into a flat Account of the Thing itfelf. The Exam ples of this Kind are innumerable. I {hall mention but one.

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