Original poems, and translations, in two volumes, Volume 2Churnside and Wilson, 1777 |
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Pagina 3
... least thinking I found , fomething that was more pleafing in them , than my ordinary productions , I encouraged my- felf to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon fome parts of them , which had ...
... least thinking I found , fomething that was more pleafing in them , than my ordinary productions , I encouraged my- felf to renew my old acquaintance with Lucretius and Virgil ; and immediately fixed upon fome parts of them , which had ...
Pagina 4
... least in fome places , made examples to his rules . Yet , withal , 1 muft acknowledge , that I have many times exceeded my commiffion : For I have both added and omitted , and even fometimes very boldly made , fuch expofitions of my ...
... least in fome places , made examples to his rules . Yet , withal , 1 muft acknowledge , that I have many times exceeded my commiffion : For I have both added and omitted , and even fometimes very boldly made , fuch expofitions of my ...
Pagina 9
... least I write without confult- ing them in many places . But two particular lines in Mezentius and Laufus I cannot so easily excuse : They are indeed remotely allied to Virgil's fenfe ; but they are too like the tenderness of Ovid , and ...
... least I write without confult- ing them in many places . But two particular lines in Mezentius and Laufus I cannot so easily excuse : They are indeed remotely allied to Virgil's fenfe ; but they are too like the tenderness of Ovid , and ...
Pagina 10
... least of that which preceded it ; and he himself refined it to that degree of perfection , both in the language and the thoughts , that he left an easy task to Virgil ; who , as he fucceeded him în time , so he copied this excellencies ...
... least of that which preceded it ; and he himself refined it to that degree of perfection , both in the language and the thoughts , that he left an easy task to Virgil ; who , as he fucceeded him în time , so he copied this excellencies ...
Pagina 11
... least doubt , of some eternal truths , which he has opposed . But for Lucretius , he feems to disdain all manner of replies , and is fo confident of his caufe , that he is before - hand with his antagonists ; urging for them whatever he ...
... least doubt , of some eternal truths , which he has opposed . But for Lucretius , he feems to disdain all manner of replies , and is fo confident of his caufe , that he is before - hand with his antagonists ; urging for them whatever he ...
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