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... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... Translations , the " Satire of Juvenal " was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it had not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his " Hymn to ...
... Translations , the " Satire of Juvenal " was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it had not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his " Hymn to ...
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... translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford , near Winchester , and again to another school about ...
... translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford , near Winchester , and again to another school about ...
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