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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Volume III by Theophilus Cibber
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22. The Passion of Dido for Æneas.

23. Of Prudence, of Justice.

24. The Progress of Learning.

25. Cato Major of old Age, a Poem: It is taken from the Latin of Tully,
though much alter'd from the original, not only by the change of the
stile, but by addition and subtraction. Our author tells us, that
intending to translate this piece into prose (where translation ought to
be strict) finding the matter very proper for verse, he took the liberty
to leave out what was only necessary, to that age and place, and to take
or add what was proper to this preset age and occasion, by laying the
scene clearer and in fewer words, according to the stile and ear of the
times.

26. The Sophy, a Tragedy; the above pieces have been several times
printed together, in one volume in 12mo. under the Title of Poems and
Translations; with the Sophy, a Tragedy, written by Sir John Denham.

Besides these, Wood mentions a Panegyric on his excellency general Monk
1659, in one sheet quarto. Though Denham's name is not to it, it is
generally ascribed to him. A Prologue to his majesty, at the first play
represented at the Cock-pit in White-hall, being part of that noble
entertainment, which their majesties received, November 19, 1660, from
his grace the duke of Albemarle. A new Version of the Psalms of
David. The True Presbyterian, without Disguise; or, a Character of a
Presbyterian's Ways and Actions, London 1680, in half a sheet in folio.
In the year 1666 there were printed by stealth, in octavo, certain
Poems, intitled Directions to a Painter, in four copies or parts, each
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