Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1964 - Poets, English |
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Page 272
... remarks , such as cost a mind stored like his no labour to produce them . In 1697 , he published his version of the works of Virgil ; and that no opportunity of profit might be lost , dedicated the Pastorals to the lord Clifford , the ...
... remarks , such as cost a mind stored like his no labour to produce them . In 1697 , he published his version of the works of Virgil ; and that no opportunity of profit might be lost , dedicated the Pastorals to the lord Clifford , the ...
Page 290
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
... remarks on Pope's Odyssey , produces what he thinks an unconquerable quotation from Dry- den's preface to the Eneid , in favour of translating an epick poem into blank verse ; but he forgets that when his author attempted the Iliad ...
Page 447
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
... remarks being superficial , might be easily understood , and being just , might prepare the mind for more attain- ments . Had he presented Paradise Lost to the publick with all the pomp of system and severity of science , the criti ...
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