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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. 1 THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . CENTA.
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. 1 THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . CENTA.
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... poetry published by Lintot , commonly called " Pope's Mifcellanies , " many of his early pieces were inferted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the fuccefs of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a verfion of ...
... poetry published by Lintot , commonly called " Pope's Mifcellanies , " many of his early pieces were inferted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely connected . When the fuccefs of the " Iliad " gave encouragement to a verfion of ...
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... poets diftin- guithed for the profound , he reckons Broome among " the Parrots who repeat another's words in fuch a “ hoarse odd tune as makes them feem their own . ' I have been told that they were afterwards reconciled ; but I am ...
... poets diftin- guithed for the profound , he reckons Broome among " the Parrots who repeat another's words in fuch a “ hoarse odd tune as makes them feem their own . ' I have been told that they were afterwards reconciled ; but I am ...
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... poetry by the perufal of " Ogilby's Homer , " and " Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogil- by's affiftance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , ” that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his ...
... poetry by the perufal of " Ogilby's Homer , " and " Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogil- by's affiftance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , ” that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his ...
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... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the " Metamorphofes . " If he kept the fame proportion in his other exercifes , it cannot be thought that his lofs was great , He tells of himself ...
... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the " Metamorphofes . " If he kept the fame proportion in his other exercifes , it cannot be thought that his lofs was great , He tells of himself ...
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