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Page 6
... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dexterously dropt the laurels appro- priated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dexterously dropt the laurels appro- priated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
Page 14
... prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS As profperity and happiness are described ...
... prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS As profperity and happiness are described ...
Page 54
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the fubject in queftion . The fupplicating fong at the beginning of the fifth stanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he conjures the powers ...
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the fubject in queftion . The fupplicating fong at the beginning of the fifth stanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he conjures the powers ...
Page 59
... tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that , in my humble judgment , he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story . I have lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , On the Use and ...
... tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that , in my humble judgment , he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story . I have lately feen a manufcript ode , entitled , On the Use and ...
Page 80
... tranflation of Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested his attention by the force of the ftory . The Ovid of Sandys fell next in his way ; and it is faid , that the raptures these ...
... tranflation of Homer , which , notwithstanding the deadness and infipidity of the verfification , arrested his attention by the force of the ftory . The Ovid of Sandys fell next in his way ; and it is faid , that the raptures these ...
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