The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... Iliad in English , as a pre- lude to the version of the whole . But it was too late in the day to be planning schemes of future employment . Dryden was now about seventy years old : his limbs had long forsaken their office ; and he died ...
... Iliad in English , as a pre- lude to the version of the whole . But it was too late in the day to be planning schemes of future employment . Dryden was now about seventy years old : his limbs had long forsaken their office ; and he died ...
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... Iliad . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice ( Dr. Johnson surmises ) that his project went no farther . ' Considering the respective powers of the two translators , we think , the reader cannot ...
... Iliad . Considering into what hands Homer was to fall , the reader cannot but rejoice ( Dr. Johnson surmises ) that his project went no farther . ' Considering the respective powers of the two translators , we think , the reader cannot ...
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... Iliad is calculated to warrant the foregoing conjecture . It is obvious to remark , that delicate expressions in the learned languages almost necessarily become gross in correspondent English . As we have never heard those languages ...
... Iliad is calculated to warrant the foregoing conjecture . It is obvious to remark , that delicate expressions in the learned languages almost necessarily become gross in correspondent English . As we have never heard those languages ...
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... Iliad were more simple or rude ' than those of the Æneid ? We have always supposed , that the two poems recounted the actions of the same heroes , and describe the manners of the same age ; nor did it ever occur to us , that the ...
... Iliad were more simple or rude ' than those of the Æneid ? We have always supposed , that the two poems recounted the actions of the same heroes , and describe the manners of the same age ; nor did it ever occur to us , that the ...
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... Iliad . Mr. Scott has forgotten , also , that these dead masters have some rights , as well as the living . We can hardly permit Virgil to be used only as a curb to an unruly translator ; nor is it doing justice to Homer , to make him ...
... Iliad . Mr. Scott has forgotten , also , that these dead masters have some rights , as well as the living . We can hardly permit Virgil to be used only as a curb to an unruly translator ; nor is it doing justice to Homer , to make him ...
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