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... a man whose learning was greater than his powers of poetry ; and who , being better qualified to give the meaning than the spirit of Seneca , has introduced his version of three tragedies by a defence of close translation .
... a man whose learning was greater than his powers of poetry ; and who , being better qualified to give the meaning than the spirit of Seneca , has introduced his version of three tragedies by a defence of close translation .
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It had better become Dryden's learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shewn , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy . His description of the Fire is painted by resolute ...
It had better become Dryden's learning and genius to have laboured science into poetry , and have shewn , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy . His description of the Fire is painted by resolute ...
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With not much better success , Trapp , when his Tragedy and his Prelections had given him reputation , attempted another blank version of the Eneid ; to which , notwithstanding the slight regard with which it was treated , he had ...
With not much better success , Trapp , when his Tragedy and his Prelections had given him reputation , attempted another blank version of the Eneid ; to which , notwithstanding the slight regard with which it was treated , he had ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson Volumes 83-84 of World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2011 |
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