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We must allow of Roscommon, what Fenton has not mentioned so distinctly as he
ought, and what is yet very much to his ... his Miscellanies : 'It was my Lord
Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse,' says Dryden, 'which made me uneasy
, ...
We must allow of Roscommon, what Fenton has not mentioned so distinctly as he
ought, and what is yet very much to his ... his Miscellanies : 'It was my Lord
Roscommon's Essay on Translated Verse,' says Dryden, 'which made me uneasy
, ...
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little more than one of those cursory civilities which one author pays to another;
for when the sum of 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
...
little more than one of those cursory civilities which one author pays to another;
for when the sum of 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
...
Page 163
When Mrs. Phillips was in Ireland, some ladies that had seen her translation of
Pompey, resolved to bring it on the stage at Dublin; and, to promote their design,
Lord Roscommon gave them a prologue, and Sir Edward Dering an Epilogue; ...
When Mrs. Phillips was in Ireland, some ladies that had seen her translation of
Pompey, resolved to bring it on the stage at Dublin; and, to promote their design,
Lord Roscommon gave them a prologue, and Sir Edward Dering an Epilogue; ...
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