Excerpt from Bucolica, Georgica, Et Æneis: Accedunt Clavis Metrica, Notulæ Anglicæ, Et Quæstiones

To this cause we must attribute the fact, that so fevv among our educated men read the Latin poets with ease or pleasure. But if file habit of reading independently of forci assistance be once formed, the want 0 such assistance is not £53. It is found b experience that boys, who have been tau ht in this way, read libraco and Juvenal as readily as they do icero and Tacitus, and even with more confidence, since in poetry they are fiirnish ed by prosody with an unerring test for resolving many doubts, while m prose they have no such aid.

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