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Page 290
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
Page 367
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calcu- lator will find that he dispatched seven ...
... remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manuscripts . The books were certainly not very long , the manuscripts not very difficult , nor the remarks very large ; for the calcu- lator will find that he dispatched seven ...
Page 447
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
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