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Page 6
... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dexterously dropt the laurels appro- priated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dexterously dropt the laurels appro- priated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , Thames heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
Page 8
... tranflation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into 66 mong your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head * . ” POPE has thus altered this image ...
... tranflation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into 66 mong your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pose the chaplet which adorns your head * . ” POPE has thus altered this image ...
Page 14
... - gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 THE 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS " ...
... - gular beauties of this prophecy , is here close- ly , though faintly tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of just criticism . THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews 7 THE 14 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS " ...
Page 50
... tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Ode at the request of ...
... tranflation of the Iliad , he would not have attempted one after fo great a master ; he might have faid with more propriety , I will not write a mufic- ode * after Alexander's Feaft , which the * He wrote this Ode at the request of ...
Page 54
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the subject in queftion . The fupplicating fong at the beginning of the fifth stanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , efpecially when he conjures the powers ...
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil * , and happily adapted to the subject in queftion . The fupplicating fong at the beginning of the fifth stanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , efpecially when he conjures the powers ...
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