...rendering of Virgil's original in such a manner fulfills his claim to make Virgil speak "as he wou'd himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present Age" (Works V: 331). Yet it also shows Dryden conducting a sustained meditation for himself and his readers...

...to be lost, because they will not shine in any but their own. . . . Yet I may presume to say . . . that, taking all the materials of this divine author,...in England, and in this present age. I acknowledge . . . that I have not succeeded in this attempt according to my desire : yet I shall not be wholly...

...English language, and to English verse, and in that he never wavered. 'I have endeavoured', he says, 'to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...had been born in England, and in this present age.' And he said much the same about his translation of Juvenal. About the time of his early translations...

...Illustrations of Shakesptart, ii. 291. t connection Dryden himself says, regarding his own translation, " I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English...have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in the present age." 1 And this is, so far, in line with Douglas's declared principle, which, however,...