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Page 24
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense angracefully from verse to verse ; โร Then all those 1 X ་ ་ Who in the dark our fury did escape ...
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense angracefully from verse to verse ; โร Then all those 1 X ་ ་ Who in the dark our fury did escape ...
Page 25
... translator of Polybius , remark , ” what I think is true , that Milton was the first t Englishman who , after the ... translated or versified two Psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the public In this assertion Dr. Johnson ...
... translator of Polybius , remark , ” what I think is true , that Milton was the first t Englishman who , after the ... translated or versified two Psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the public In this assertion Dr. Johnson ...
Page 33
... translation may show its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having ex- posed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the for- * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res glorio ...
... translation may show its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having ex- posed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the for- * It may be doubted whether gloriosissimus be here used with Milton's boasted purity . Res glorio ...
Page 52
... translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ; * and , beside our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in * The Earl of Surrey translated two books of Vir gil without rhyme , the second and the fourth . - J . B. blank verse ...
... translated one of Virgil's books without rhyme ; * and , beside our tragedies , a few short poems had appeared in * The Earl of Surrey translated two books of Vir gil without rhyme , the second and the fourth . - J . B. blank verse ...
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... Translated * They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717. The editor , ton : - " In his writings , " says Fenton , " we view the image of a mind which was naturally seri- ous and solid ; richly ...
... Translated * They were published , together with those of Duke , in an octavo volume , in 1717. The editor , ton : - " In his writings , " says Fenton , " we view the image of a mind which was naturally seri- ous and solid ; richly ...
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