Mythology for Versification: Or, a Brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, Prepared to be Rendered Into Latin Verse...Taylor, Walton and Maberly, 1851 - 147 pages |
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Page vi - Ky the facilities here afforded, it will be possible, in many cases, for a boy to get rapidly through these preparatory exercises ; and thus, having mastered the first difficulties, he may advance with better hopes of improvement to subjects of higher character, and verses of more difficult composition.