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... Homer , is perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false and sometimes common . In his ...
... Homer , is perhaps the best . His lines are weakened with expletives , and his rhymes are frequently imperfect . His petty poems are seldom worth the cost of criticism ; sometimes the thoughts are false and sometimes common . In his ...
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... Homer " and " Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogilby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely ...
... Homer " and " Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogilby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely ...
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... Homer's images and expressions , and practice increased his facility of versification . In a short time he represents himself as despatching regularly fifty verses a day , which would show him by an easy computation , the termination of ...
... Homer's images and expressions , and practice increased his facility of versification . In a short time he represents himself as despatching regularly fifty verses a day , which would show him by an easy computation , the termination of ...
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... Homer than other poets , because his positions are general , and his representations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on those changeable scenes of artificial life , which , by mingling original with ...
... Homer than other poets , because his positions are general , and his representations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on those changeable scenes of artificial life , which , by mingling original with ...
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... Homer , " which Pope found so harsh , that he took great pains in correcting it ; and by his own diligence , with such help as kindness or money could procure him , in somewhat more than five years he completed his version of the ...
... Homer , " which Pope found so harsh , that he took great pains in correcting it ; and by his own diligence , with such help as kindness or money could procure him , in somewhat more than five years he completed his version of the ...
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