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Mr. Pope 's Sentiments of these two Poets are somewhat different; the Reader shall have the Pleasure of comparing them; "This Fire (says he) is discern'd in Virgil , but discern'd as thro' a Glass, reflected, and more shining than warm, but every where equal and constant:
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

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