Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 161
... elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the author should be suitable to the translator's genius ; that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who ...
... elegance of the poetry , and confine it to the sense of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the author should be suitable to the translator's genius ; that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who ...
Page 162
... elegance or vigour . His political verses are spritely , and when they were written must have been very popular . Of the scene of Guarini , and the prologue of Pompey , Mrs. Phillips , in her letters to Sir Charles Cotterel , has given ...
... elegance or vigour . His political verses are spritely , and when they were written must have been very popular . Of the scene of Guarini , and the prologue of Pompey , Mrs. Phillips , in her letters to Sir Charles Cotterel , has given ...
Page 205
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
... elegance and gaiety . He is never pathetick , and very rarely sublime . He seems neither to have had a mind much elevated by nature , nor amplified by learning . His thoughts are such as a liberal conversation and large acquaintance ...
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