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Page 82
... learning would refuse to help him ? Minute inquiries into the force of words are less necessary in translating Homer than other poets , because his positions are general , and his representations natural , with very little dependence on ...
... learning would refuse to help him ? Minute inquiries into the force of words are less necessary in translating Homer than other poets , because his positions are general , and his representations natural , with very little dependence on ...
Page 83
... learning must supply materials to wit and judgment . Something might be gathered from Dacier , but no man loves to be indebted to his contemporaries , and Dacier was accessible to common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily ...
... learning must supply materials to wit and judgment . Something might be gathered from Dacier , but no man loves to be indebted to his contemporaries , and Dacier was accessible to common readers . Eustathius was therefore necessarily ...
Page 85
... learning . To those who have skill to estimate the ex- cellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correctness . Of such an intel- lectual ...
... learning . To those who have skill to estimate the ex- cellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very desirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correctness . Of such an intel- lectual ...
Page 102
... learning they agree better . He was called at the trial to give an account of Atterbury's domestic life and private employment , that it might appear how little time he had left for plots . Pope had but few words to utter , and in those ...
... learning they agree better . He was called at the trial to give an account of Atterbury's domestic life and private employment , that it might appear how little time he had left for plots . Pope had but few words to utter , and in those ...
Page 103
... learning was not very great , and whose mind was not very powerful . His criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought he thought rightly , " " and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour POPE . 103.
... learning was not very great , and whose mind was not very powerful . His criticism , however , was commonly just ; what he thought he thought rightly , " " and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour POPE . 103.
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