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'As we were leaving the College, he said, "Here I translated Pope's Messiah. Which do you think is the best line in it? My own favourite is, 'Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes." I told him, I thought it a very sonorous hexameter. I did not tell him, it was not in the Virgilian style. He much regretted that his FIRST tutor was dead; for whom he seemed to retain the greatest regard.
His Latin poetry is not without a certain barbaric splendour; but it discovers, as might be expected, no skill in the more refined graces of the Augustan age. The verse he quoted to Thomas Warton as his favourite, from the translation of Pope's Messiah, Vallis aromaticas fundit Saronica nubes,
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