Lives of the English Poets: Swift-LytteltonClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Homer , ' continues : - ' The translator may end his line with long words of two , three , and sometimes four syllables , which is one of Homer's beauties . ' version of Iliad i begins ( reproducing it as it is printed ) : - ' Sing ...
... Homer , ' continues : - ' The translator may end his line with long words of two , three , and sometimes four syllables , which is one of Homer's beauties . ' version of Iliad i begins ( reproducing it as it is printed ) : - ' Sing ...
Page 77
... Homer , ' continues : - ' The translator may end his line with long words of two , three , and sometimes four syllables , which is one of Homer's beauties . ' Ozell's version of Iliad i begins ( reproducing it as it is printed ) ...
... Homer , ' continues : - ' The translator may end his line with long words of two , three , and sometimes four syllables , which is one of Homer's beauties . ' Ozell's version of Iliad i begins ( reproducing it as it is printed ) ...
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... Homer ; but they say Broome went before , and kindly swept the way . ' Eng . Poets , xli . 253. The author explains in a note that the pain is the gout - a disease of which Fenton died . Ante , FENTON , 18 . [ Lines on the Untimely ...
... Homer ; but they say Broome went before , and kindly swept the way . ' Eng . Poets , xli . 253. The author explains in a note that the pain is the gout - a disease of which Fenton died . Ante , FENTON , 18 . [ Lines on the Untimely ...
Page 84
... Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise 3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely ...
... Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's assistance he never repaid with any praise 3 ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely ...
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... Homer , with Two Letters con- cerning Windsor Forest and The Temple of Fame ; and in 1728 , Re- marks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock , written in letters , the first dated May 1 , 1714. This last book he had , he said , kept back in ter ...
... Homer , with Two Letters con- cerning Windsor Forest and The Temple of Fame ; and in 1728 , Re- marks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock , written in letters , the first dated May 1 , 1714. This last book he had , he said , kept back in ter ...
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