The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 184
... Lord Roscommon , being a boy of ten years of age , at Caen , in Normandy , one day was , as it were , madly extravagant in playing , leaping , get- ting over the tables , boards , & c . He was wont to be sober enough ; they said , God ...
... Lord Roscommon , being a boy of ten years of age , at Caen , in Normandy , one day was , as it were , madly extravagant in playing , leaping , get- ting over the tables , boards , & c . He was wont to be sober enough ; they said , God ...
Page 189
... Roscommon , what Fenton has not mentioned so distinctly as he ought , and what is yet very much to his honour , that ... Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Trans- to procure and insert all of his Lordship's poems that are truly genuine . The ...
... Roscommon , what Fenton has not mentioned so distinctly as he ought , and what is yet very much to his honour , that ... Lord Roscommon's ' Essay on Trans- to procure and insert all of his Lordship's poems that are truly genuine . The ...
Page 190
... Lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflec tions . He that can abstract his mind ...
... Lord Roscommon's precepts is collected , it will not be easy to discover how they can qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflec tions . He that can abstract his mind ...
Page 192
... Sir Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ire- land . He has paraphrased a psalm admirably ; and a scene of " Pastor Fido " very finely , in ...
... Sir Charles Cotterel , has given the history . " Lord Roscommon , " says she , " is certainly one of the most promising young noblemen in Ire- land . He has paraphrased a psalm admirably ; and a scene of " Pastor Fido " very finely , in ...
Page 405
... Roscommon , no man under . stood Horace better , especially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful ... John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's Lu- sory , or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master ...
... Roscommon , no man under . stood Horace better , especially as to his happy dic- tion , rolling numbers , beautiful ... John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's Lu- sory , or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master ...
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