The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 14
... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must ...
... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must ...
Page 15
... translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hudibras , " and has at least ...
... translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . " Alma " is written in professed imitation of " Hudibras , " and has at least ...
Page 26
... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the Muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the Muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
Page 30
... translations , the satire of Juvenal was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it have not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his Hymn to Venus ...
... translations , the satire of Juvenal was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it have not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his Hymn to Venus ...
Page 47
... translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed between Broome and Fenton : the books allotted to Fenton were the first , the fourth , the nineteenth , and the twentieth ...
... translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed between Broome and Fenton : the books allotted to Fenton were the first , the fourth , the nineteenth , and the twentieth ...
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