Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 73
... sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders " Mr. Rowe has given the world some admirable specimens of Lucan , and not only kept up the fire of the original , but delivered the sentiments with greater ...
... sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders " Mr. Rowe has given the world some admirable specimens of Lucan , and not only kept up the fire of the original , but delivered the sentiments with greater ...
Page 74
... sometimes the conversation of his friends . ' When he had just got to be easy in his fortune , and was in a fair way to make it better , death swept him away , and in him deprived the world of one of the best men as well as one of the ...
... sometimes the conversation of his friends . ' When he had just got to be easy in his fortune , and was in a fair way to make it better , death swept him away , and in him deprived the world of one of the best men as well as one of the ...
Page 76
... speeches , per- haps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe without his effeminacy . ' JOHNSON , Works , v . 133 . Gray wrote to Horace Walpole : - His translations of the Golden Verses1 and of the first 76 ROWE.
... speeches , per- haps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe without his effeminacy . ' JOHNSON , Works , v . 133 . Gray wrote to Horace Walpole : - His translations of the Golden Verses1 and of the first 76 ROWE.
Page 77
... sometimes a little diluted by additional infusions , and sometimes weakened by too much expansion . But such faults are to be expected in all translations , from the constraint of measures and dissimilitude of languages . The Pharsalia ...
... sometimes a little diluted by additional infusions , and sometimes weakened by too much expansion . But such faults are to be expected in all translations , from the constraint of measures and dissimilitude of languages . The Pharsalia ...
Page 95
... sometimes embellished and sometimes aggravated , the originals are now partly known , and partly forgotten . But to say that they united the plans of two or three eminent 45 writers is to give them but a small part of their due praise ...
... sometimes embellished and sometimes aggravated , the originals are now partly known , and partly forgotten . But to say that they united the plans of two or three eminent 45 writers is to give them but a small part of their due praise ...
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