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Page 80
... translations gave him were fo ftrong , that he spoke of them with pleasure to the period of his life . About ten , being now at school at Hyde- park - corner , whether he went from a po- pifh feminary to Twiford , near Winchester , he ...
... translations gave him were fo ftrong , that he spoke of them with pleasure to the period of his life . About ten , being now at school at Hyde- park - corner , whether he went from a po- pifh feminary to Twiford , near Winchester , he ...
Page 108
... to the firft of whom he gave fix hundred pounds , and to the latter , three hundred . This translation has proved a good eftate to the book feller . keep keep him from the two moft deftructive enemies to a 108 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... to the firft of whom he gave fix hundred pounds , and to the latter , three hundred . This translation has proved a good eftate to the book feller . keep keep him from the two moft deftructive enemies to a 108 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
Page 115
... translation of the Iliad , one of the beft pieces of profe in the English language , is an example how well poets are qualified to be critics . 4. Some neither can for wits nor critics pafs , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass ...
... translation of the Iliad , one of the beft pieces of profe in the English language , is an example how well poets are qualified to be critics . 4. Some neither can for wits nor critics pafs , As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass ...
Page 150
... Translations from Vida , Weft in his Pindar , Thomson in the Caftle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a Mifcellany en- titled the UNION ‡ . 19d Thft . Orat . lib . vii . c . 3 . Edinburgh , 1753 ...
... Translations from Vida , Weft in his Pindar , Thomson in the Caftle of In- dolence , and the author of an elegant Ode TO SUMMER , published in a Mifcellany en- titled the UNION ‡ . 19d Thft . Orat . lib . vii . c . 3 . Edinburgh , 1753 ...
Page 185
... translation of his Comment on the Poetics , with this title , AVERROYS Summa in Ariftotelis Poeticam ; ex Arabico fermone in Latinum traducta ab Hermano Ale- mano . Præmittitur Determinatio IBINROSDIN ( another Ara- bian writer ] in ...
... translation of his Comment on the Poetics , with this title , AVERROYS Summa in Ariftotelis Poeticam ; ex Arabico fermone in Latinum traducta ab Hermano Ale- mano . Præmittitur Determinatio IBINROSDIN ( another Ara- bian writer ] in ...
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