An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETs . T HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He ...
... TRANSLATIONS of STATIUS and OVID , and the IMITATIONS of fome ENGLISH POETs . T HE first dawnings of polite literature in Italy , appeared in talewriting and fables . Boccace gave a currency and vogue to this fpecies of compofition . He ...
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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 was made at Dr. Cheyne's houfe at Bath , and that he himfelf had often been Hooke's Amanuenfis on this occafion , who dictated his translation to him with uncommon facility and rapidity . The Dutchefs rewarded Hooke with ...
... translation was made at Dr. Cheyne's houfe at Bath , and that he himfelf had often been Hooke's Amanuenfis on this occafion , who dictated his translation to him with uncommon facility and rapidity . The Dutchefs rewarded Hooke with ...
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... translation of all the Pfalms , of which defign his version of the 23d is a beautiful fpecimen . Addifon used to speak contemptuously of his own account of the English poets , addreffed to his old friend Sacheverell . It is remarkable ...
... translation of all the Pfalms , of which defign his version of the 23d is a beautiful fpecimen . Addifon used to speak contemptuously of his own account of the English poets , addreffed to his old friend Sacheverell . It is remarkable ...
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... translated it in a morning or two , and fent it to prefs in a week or fortnight after . And this was the occafion of my imitating fome other of the Satires and Epiftles . To how cafual a beginning ( adds SPENCE ) are we obliged , for ...
... translated it in a morning or two , and fent it to prefs in a week or fortnight after . And this was the occafion of my imitating fome other of the Satires and Epiftles . To how cafual a beginning ( adds SPENCE ) are we obliged , for ...
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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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Aug 2010 |
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