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The Life of Virgil.
A SHORT
ACCOUNT
OF HIS
Person, Manners and Fortune.
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E was of a very swarthy Complexion, which might proceed from the Southern Extraction of his Father, tall and wide-shoulder'd, so that he may be thought to have describ'd himself under the Character of Musæus, whom he calls the best of Poets.
———Medium nam plurima turba
Hunc habet, atque humeris ex tantem suspicit altis.
His Sickliness, Studies, and the Troubles he met with, turn'd his Hair gray
