Excerpt from The Works of Virgil, Vol. 1 of 2: Translated Into English Prose, as Near the Original as the Different Idioms of the Latin and English Languages Will Allow To my twelfth Year, could barely from the Ground Touch with my reaching Hand the tender Boughs; How did I look! How gaze my Soul away! Trapp. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.