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... aftrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; fome French tranflations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
... aftrology , chemistry and romance , there was not one copy of Tully to be found , and no Latin poet but Ovid , Lucan and Boethius ; fome French tranflations of Livy , Valerius Maximus , and St. Austin's City of God .
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+ See his verfes to Dryden , prefixed to the tranflation of Virgil . Lord Bolingbroke affured POPE , that Dryden aften declared to him , that he got more from the Spanish critics alone , than from the Italian , French , and all other ...
+ See his verfes to Dryden , prefixed to the tranflation of Virgil . Lord Bolingbroke affured POPE , that Dryden aften declared to him , that he got more from the Spanish critics alone , than from the Italian , French , and all other ...
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The Effay on Man was elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verse by M. Du Refnel . ... Which tranflation has been often printed ; at Paris 1736 ; at London 1741 , in Quarto ; at the Hague 1742. He has fubjoined a defence ...
The Effay on Man was elegantly , but unfaithfully , tranflated into French verse by M. Du Refnel . ... Which tranflation has been often printed ; at Paris 1736 ; at London 1741 , in Quarto ; at the Hague 1742. He has fubjoined a defence ...
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In the very laft edition of bishop Law's tranflation of the Origin of Evil , p . 17 , is the following remarkable passage : " I had now the fatisfaction of seeing that thofe very principles which had been maintained by archbishop King ...
In the very laft edition of bishop Law's tranflation of the Origin of Evil , p . 17 , is the following remarkable passage : " I had now the fatisfaction of seeing that thofe very principles which had been maintained by archbishop King ...
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Dr. KING , of St. Mary Hall , in Oxford , informed me , that this elegant tranflation was made at Dr. Cheyne's house at Bath , and that he himself had often been Hooke's Amanuenfis on this occafion , who dictated his tranflation to him ...
Dr. KING , of St. Mary Hall , in Oxford , informed me , that this elegant tranflation was made at Dr. Cheyne's house at Bath , and that he himself had often been Hooke's Amanuenfis on this occafion , who dictated his tranflation to him ...
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| Title | An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2 An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Joseph Warton Volume 2 of An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. In Two Volumes, Joseph Warton |
| Author | Joseph Warton |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | J. Dodsley, 1782 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
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