The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... translations which almost all the na- tions of Europe were in hafte to obtain . This fpecies of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's Manners of the Age , though , as Boileau remarked ...
... translations which almost all the na- tions of Europe were in hafte to obtain . This fpecies of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's Manners of the Age , though , as Boileau remarked ...
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... translating the Pfalms . It is related that he had once a design to make an English Dictionary , and that he con- fidered Dr. Tillotfon as the writer of highest authority . There was formerly fent to me by Mr. Locker , clerk of the ...
... translating the Pfalms . It is related that he had once a design to make an English Dictionary , and that he con- fidered Dr. Tillotfon as the writer of highest authority . There was formerly fent to me by Mr. Locker , clerk of the ...
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... translation of the Invectives against Philip , with a design , surely weak and puerile , of turning the thunder of Demo- fthenes upon the head of Lewis . He afterwards ( in 1706 ) had his estate again augmented by an inheritance from ...
... translation of the Invectives against Philip , with a design , surely weak and puerile , of turning the thunder of Demo- fthenes upon the head of Lewis . He afterwards ( in 1706 ) had his estate again augmented by an inheritance from ...
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... translate any author as myself ; and " that publishing both was entering on a fair ftage . I then added , that I would not de- " fire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , becaufe he had looked over Mr. " Tickell's ; but could ...
... translate any author as myself ; and " that publishing both was entering on a fair ftage . I then added , that I would not de- " fire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , becaufe he had looked over Mr. " Tickell's ; but could ...
Page 180
... translations would be tedious ; the palm is now given universally to Pope ; but I think the first lines of Tickell's were rather to be preferred , and Pope feems to have fince borrowed fomething from them in the correction of his own ...
... translations would be tedious ; the palm is now given universally to Pope ; but I think the first lines of Tickell's were rather to be preferred , and Pope feems to have fince borrowed fomething from them in the correction of his own ...
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