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He then undertook an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

He then undertook an edition of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," translated by several hands; which he recommended by a preface, written with more ostentation than ability; his notions are half-formed, and his materials immethodically confused.

From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Johnson, Samuel