Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 60
... elegance of polished verfions . Thofe literal translations were 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 ...
... elegance of polished verfions . Thofe literal translations were 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 ...
الصفحة 89
... its first 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, ...
... its first 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, ...
الصفحة 112
... elegance , which was afterwards reprinted , with fome paffages fubjoined that he at first - omitted ; other marginal additions of the fame kind he made in the later editions of his poems . Waller remarks , that poets lofe half their ...
... elegance , which was afterwards reprinted , with fome paffages fubjoined that he at first - omitted ; other marginal additions of the fame kind he made in the later editions of his poems . Waller remarks , that poets lofe half their ...
الصفحة 117
... to be more accurate . In his Preface he expanded , with great fkill and elegance , the character which had been given of Shakespeare by Dryden ; and . he drew H 3 the the publick attention upon his works , which , though POPE . 117.
... to be more accurate . In his Preface he expanded , with great fkill and elegance , the character which had been given of Shakespeare by Dryden ; and . he drew H 3 the the publick attention upon his works , which , though POPE . 117.
الصفحة 233
... faid to have wanted no part of the kill or elegance which fuch performances require .. That this magnificence fhould be often difplayed , that obftinate prudence with magni- POPE . 233 writing his compofitions on the back of ...
... faid to have wanted no part of the kill or elegance which fuch performances require .. That this magnificence fhould be often difplayed , that obftinate prudence with magni- POPE . 233 writing his compofitions on the back of ...
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