The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. To examine his performances one by one would be tedious . His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few readers , while another can be had in rhyme . The piece addressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen ...
Samuel Johnson. To examine his performances one by one would be tedious . His translation from Homer into blank verse will find few readers , while another can be had in rhyme . The piece addressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen ...
Page 66
... Translation of ye first Book of Oppian . He had begun a tragedy of Dion , but made small progress in it . As to his other Affairs , he dyed poor , but ho- nest , leaving no Debts , or Legacies ; except of a few pds to Mr. Trumbull and ...
... Translation of ye first Book of Oppian . He had begun a tragedy of Dion , but made small progress in it . As to his other Affairs , he dyed poor , but ho- nest , leaving no Debts , or Legacies ; except of a few pds to Mr. Trumbull and ...
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... translation of the " Invectives against . Phi- lip , " with a design , surely weak and puerile , of turning the thunder of Demosthenes upon the head of Louis . He afterwards ( in 1706 ) had his estate again augmented by an inheritance ...
... translation of the " Invectives against . Phi- lip , " with a design , surely weak and puerile , of turning the thunder of Demosthenes upon the head of Louis . He afterwards ( in 1706 ) had his estate again augmented by an inheritance ...
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... translated by himself , an appa- rent opposition to Pope's " Homer , " of which the first part made its entrance into the world at the same time . Addison declared that the rival versions were both good , but that Tickell's was the best ...
... translated by himself , an appa- rent opposition to Pope's " Homer , " of which the first part made its entrance into the world at the same time . Addison declared that the rival versions were both good , but that Tickell's was the best ...
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... translation ; that he certainly had as much right to translate any author as myself ; and that publishing both was entering on a fair stage . I then added , that I would not desire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , ' because ...
... translation ; that he certainly had as much right to translate any author as myself ; and that publishing both was entering on a fair stage . I then added , that I would not desire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , ' because ...
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