The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans ...
... praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans ...
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... praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preservative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his merit 12 ...
... praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain preservative from oblivion . At Florence he could not indeed complain that his merit 12 ...
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... praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society or the rights of government , undertook the employment without distrust of his own qualifications ; and , as ...
... praises , been confirmed in great confidence of himself , though he probably had not much considered the principles of society or the rights of government , undertook the employment without distrust of his own qualifications ; and , as ...
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... praise of his antagonist would be suffi- ciently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which however he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of at- tendance scarcely less than regal . He ...
... praise of his antagonist would be suffi- ciently offensive , and might incline him to leave Sweden , from which however he was dismissed , not with any mark of contempt , but with a train of at- tendance scarcely less than regal . He ...
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... praise . ' 6 Next year , having defended all that wanted de- fence , he found leisure to defend himself . He un- dertook his own vindication against More , whom he declares in his title to be justly called the author of the Regii ...
... praise . ' 6 Next year , having defended all that wanted de- fence , he found leisure to defend himself . He un- dertook his own vindication against More , whom he declares in his title to be justly called the author of the Regii ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.