Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
... it by caprice without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular that it was translated into Latin by no common 73 LIVES OF THE POETS . 22.
Pagina 23
... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must ...
... translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the Battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza . An uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must ...
Pagina 36
... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
... translation of the " Iliad . " But he treated the muses with ingratitude ; for , having long conversed familiarly with the great , he wished to be considered rather as a man of fashion than of wit ; and , when he received a visit from ...
Pagina 41
... Translations , the " Satire of Juvenal " was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it had not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his " Hymn to ...
... Translations , the " Satire of Juvenal " was written very early , and may therefore be forgiven , though it had not the massiness and vigour of the original . In all his versions strength and sprightliness are wanting ; his " Hymn to ...
Pagina 63
... translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford , near Winchester , and again to another school about ...
... translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was considerable , he was removed to a school at Twyford , near Winchester , and again to another school about ...
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Addison afterwards appear Atrides Battle of Ramillies beauties Binfield Blackmore Boileau Bolingbroke censure character Cibber composition Congreve considered contempt copies couplet criticism Curll declared delight Dennis desire diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Earl of Oxford edition elegance endeavoured English Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Halifax heroes Homer honour Iliad images imitation judgment kind King known labour language learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mankind mind nature never numbers o'er opinion original passages performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise printed Prior prose published readers reason remarks reputation resentment ridicule SAMUEL JOHNSON satire says seems sometimes supposed Swift tell thought tion told translation verses versification virtue volume Warburton Westminster Abbey WILLIAM CONGREVE write written wrote