An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . HE firft dawnings of polite lite- TH rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo ...
... TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMI- TATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETS . HE firft dawnings of polite lite- TH rature in Italy , appeared in tale- writing and fables . Boccace gave a cur- rency and vogue to this fpecies of compo ...
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... 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 ...
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... translation , I shall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing fnake appears , Guards her black ...
... translation , I shall felect the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell , Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The peft a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing fnake appears , Guards her black ...
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... , to fubjoin a Latin translation of this beau- tiful and exalted paffage , which to be able to read in its original is no vulgar happiness . Take Take it therefore in the words of Budæus . " AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 109.
... , to fubjoin a Latin translation of this beau- tiful and exalted paffage , which to be able to read in its original is no vulgar happiness . Take Take it therefore in the words of Budæus . " AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 109.
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... translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . 14 . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and laborious man was the first ...
... translation are of a different kind , They are fuch , as remind us of Nero's gilding a brazen ftatue of Alexander the Great , caft by Lyfippus . 14 . down to piddling Tibalds . YET this very dull and laborious man was the first ...
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