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Page 21
... TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ...
... TRANSLATION of the first book of Statius , is the next piece that belongs to this Section . It was in his childhood only , that he could make choice of fo injudicious a writer . It were to be wished that no youth of genius were fuffered ...
Page 276
... translation of Horace is not equal to his Ariftotle's Poetics . In the former , he is perpetually striving to discover new meanings in his author , which Boileau called , The Revelations of Dacier . + Ver . 10 . + Ver . 21 . be ab- lea ...
... translation of Horace is not equal to his Ariftotle's Poetics . In the former , he is perpetually striving to discover new meanings in his author , which Boileau called , The Revelations of Dacier . + Ver . 10 . + Ver . 21 . be ab- lea ...
Page 331
... translation of the thirteenth fatire of Ju- venal ; equal to any that Dryden has given us of that author . * He knew the exact taste and learning of the perfon he addreffes , and has laboured this imitation accordingly . ↑ Ver . 1 ...
... translation of the thirteenth fatire of Ju- venal ; equal to any that Dryden has given us of that author . * He knew the exact taste and learning of the perfon he addreffes , and has laboured this imitation accordingly . ↑ Ver . 1 ...
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