Joseph Trapp

Joseph Trapp (1679 – 1747) was an English clergyman, academic, poet and pamphleteer.

Quotes
Came to the Italian and Lavinian shores, Exiled by fate; much tossed on land and sea By power divine and cruel Juno's rage; Much too in war he suffered, till he reared A city and to Latium brought his gods: Whence sprung the Latin progeny, the kings Of Alba, and the walls of towering Rome.
 * Arms and the man I sing who first from Troy
 * The Æneis of Virgil (1718)

Quotes about Trapp

 * His book may continue its existence as long as it is the clandestine refuge of schoolboys.
 * Samuel Johnson on Trapp's translation of Virgil, in Lives of the English Poets (1781), 'The Life of Dryden'.

But then, by Jove, 'tis Dr. Trapp's!
 * Better than Virgil? Yes—perhaps—
 * "Epigram of a contemporary wit, on being told that a certain nobleman wrote verses which were better than Virgil", as reported and quoted in Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. CI (January 1867), p. 37.