The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected ...
... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected ...
Page 19
... translated so little : the version of Cal- limachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hu- dibras , " and has at ...
... translated so little : the version of Cal- limachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hu- dibras , " and has at ...
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... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the Muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the Muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
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... translations , the satire of Juvenal was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it have not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and spright- liness are wanting ; his Hymn to Venus ...
... translations , the satire of Juvenal was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it have not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and spright- liness are wanting ; his Hymn to Venus ...
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... translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . - Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed ... translated into blank verse ; neither did Pope claim it , but committed it to Broome . How the two associates performed ...
... translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . - Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed ... translated into blank verse ; neither did Pope claim it , but committed it to Broome . How the two associates performed ...
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