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Excerpt from Dramas and Other Poems, Vol. 1: Of the Abbé Pietro Metastasio
Above thirty years ago I publifhed a tran¿ation from Meta¿afio in two volumes, con taining artaxerxes, the olymp'iad, hypsipyle, titus, demetrius and demophoon. It was my defign to have proceeded occafionally with the reft of his dramas, but being foon engaged in fach profefiional duties as required all my attention, the profecution of that defign was necefi'arily fufpended. When intervals of leifure afterwards might have enabled me to return to it, I entered upon the laborious undertaking of a verfion of the orlando Fumoso of Ariofio, in confequence of which the former work feemed then to be relin quifhed, with little or no view of being ever refumed.
But it having been propofed to print a new edi tion of the tran¿ation of Metaftafio's fix dramas before publifhed, [was induced to take up this author again, and have added, in the prefent edi tion, befides a continuation of his dramas of three aas, tran¿ations from his lefiér pieces and Lyric poems of a different fiyle.
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