Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... Georgics " The Holy Butcher " : the translation is not , indeed , ridiculous ; but Trapp's anger arises from his zeal , not for the author , but the priest ; as if any reproach of the follies of Paganism could be extended to the ...
... Georgics " The Holy Butcher " : the translation is not , indeed , ridiculous ; but Trapp's anger arises from his zeal , not for the author , but the priest ; as if any reproach of the follies of Paganism could be extended to the ...
Page 250
... Georgics ; and as he professes to give his antagonist an oppor- tunity of reprisal , he has added his own version of the first and fourth Pastorals , and the first Georgic . The world has forgotten his book ; but since his attempt has ...
... Georgics ; and as he professes to give his antagonist an oppor- tunity of reprisal , he has added his own version of the first and fourth Pastorals , and the first Georgic . The world has forgotten his book ; but since his attempt has ...
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... Georgic upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , “ my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil ; and produced an essay on the Georgics ...
... Georgic upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , “ my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of Dryden's Virgil ; and produced an essay on the Georgics ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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