The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not 62 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word , and line by line . Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not 62 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains , Not the effect of poetry , but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts , whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts , but poorly stick at ...
الصفحة 64
... labour , but must rise unexpectedly in some hour propitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating translation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting single words ...
... labour , but must rise unexpectedly in some hour propitious to poetry . He appears to have been one of the first that understood the necessity of emancipating translation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting single words ...
الصفحة 73
... labour and in- tense study , which , ” says he , “ I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die ...
... labour and in- tense study , which , ” says he , “ I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , " he might leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die ...
الصفحة 77
... labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators , whom I oppose , are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch the growth of ...
... labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life ; but the innovators , whom I oppose , are turning off attention from life to nature . They seem to think , that we are placed here to watch the growth of ...
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