The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 - English poetry |
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... Virgil ; and , after a labour of three years , exhibited to his countrymen their first specimen of legitimate translation . The first lines are said to have been written with a diamond , upon a pane of glass , in a window of Chesterton ...
... Virgil ; and , after a labour of three years , exhibited to his countrymen their first specimen of legitimate translation . The first lines are said to have been written with a diamond , upon a pane of glass , in a window of Chesterton ...
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... Virgil , he dedicated the Pas- torals to one lord , the Georgies to another , and the Eneid to a third . But we have been speaking rather the language of apology , than of truth . Dryden never seems to regret the necessity of com ...
... Virgil , he dedicated the Pas- torals to one lord , the Georgies to another , and the Eneid to a third . But we have been speaking rather the language of apology , than of truth . Dryden never seems to regret the necessity of com ...
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... Virgil have answered his criticisms on mine . If , as they say , he has declared in print , he prefers the version of Ogilby to mine , the world has made him the same compliment ; for it is agreed on all hands , that he writes even ...
... Virgil have answered his criticisms on mine . If , as they say , he has declared in print , he prefers the version of Ogilby to mine , the world has made him the same compliment ; for it is agreed on all hands , that he writes even ...
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... Virgil ; ' and , indeed , we think no person can doubt , that Dryden is more like Homer than Pope , -and Pope more like Virgil than Dryden . It is of Homer , that Dr. Johnson would say , his flights are the highest ; and of Virgil ...
... Virgil ; ' and , indeed , we think no person can doubt , that Dryden is more like Homer than Pope , -and Pope more like Virgil than Dryden . It is of Homer , that Dr. Johnson would say , his flights are the highest ; and of Virgil ...
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... Virgil would have af- forded neither temptation , nor opportunity . The assumption needs only to be stated , to be refuted ; and Mr. Scott himself has written too many good verses , not to know , that one of the great secrets of poetry ...
... Virgil would have af- forded neither temptation , nor opportunity . The assumption needs only to be stated , to be refuted ; and Mr. Scott himself has written too many good verses , not to know , that one of the great secrets of poetry ...
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