Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed ...
... reader of less skill seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English ode cannot be called a translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed ...
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... reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other ...
... reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other ...
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... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - second year he first showed his power of English poetry , by some verses addressed to Dryden ; and soon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon ...
... reader , and often from himself . In his twenty - second year he first showed his power of English poetry , by some verses addressed to Dryden ; and soon afterwards published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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