 I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.  The Iliad of Homer - Page lxby Homer - 1796 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes,...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' carelefnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes,...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...his learning could have fallen, but thro' ^ Y 2 carecareleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby*s, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to 'the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a final] part of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...writer of his learning could have fallen, bat thro' careleflhcfs. His poetry, as well as Ogflby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only die firtl book, and a fmall part <rf"... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...original line by line, but from the contradtions above mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes,...have fallen but through careleffnefs. His poetry, like Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm.' He left behind likewife feveral MSS. Mr. Francis Peck has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes,...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for critidfm. It is a great lofs to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 344 pages
...guilty of miflakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleflnefs. His poetry as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm....It is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a fmall part of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...origirial line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes,...Writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...by line, but from the contraftions above mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fenfences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mc.-n for criticifm. It is a great lois... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 462 pages
...abovementioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of iniftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen,...It is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has .left us only the firft book, and a fmall part of... | |
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