Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 9
... forward boys have attained , aud which is not equal to Cowley's performances at the fame age . His time was now fpent wholly in reading and writing . As he read the Claf- Clafficks , he amufed himself with tranflating them ; and POPE 9.
... forward boys have attained , aud which is not equal to Cowley's performances at the fame age . His time was now fpent wholly in reading and writing . As he read the Claf- Clafficks , he amufed himself with tranflating them ; and POPE 9.
الصفحة 10
... readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap-- pearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern Englifh . He tranflated : likewife the Epiftle of Sappho to ...
... readers , he was tempted to try his own fkill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap-- pearance , and put January and May , and the Prologue of the Wife of Bath , into modern Englifh . He tranflated : likewife the Epiftle of Sappho to ...
الصفحة 60
... always at hand , and from them he could al- ways obtain his author's fenfe with fuffi- cient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very fmall of thofe those who find much in the Greek more than in 60 POPE .
... always at hand , and from them he could al- ways obtain his author's fenfe with fuffi- cient certainty ; and among the readers of Homer the number is very fmall of thofe those who find much in the Greek more than in 60 POPE .
الصفحة 62
... readers . Eufta- thius was therefore neceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whofe work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; fome other was there- fore fore to be ...
... readers . Eufta- thius was therefore neceffarily confulted . To read Euftathius , of whofe work there was then no Latin verfion , I fufpect Pope , if he had been willing , not to have been able ; fome other was there- fore fore to be ...
الصفحة 89
... conceptions to the elegance of its laft , will naturally defire a greater num- ber ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets tired , POPE . 89 So many flames before the navy blaze, ...
... conceptions to the elegance of its laft , will naturally defire a greater num- ber ; but most other readers are already tired , and I am not writing only to poets tired , POPE . 89 So many flames before the navy blaze, ...
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