The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorCrissy & Markley, 1853 - 484 pages |
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Page ix
... Greek , and his qualifications whatever was the reason , he desisted ; another man for a translator of Homer . To these he made no of Cambridge was then employed , who soon grew public opposition ; but in one of his Letters escapes ...
... Greek , and his qualifications whatever was the reason , he desisted ; another man for a translator of Homer . To these he made no of Cambridge was then employed , who soon grew public opposition ; but in one of his Letters escapes ...
Page xi
... Greeks their joint assent declare , The father said , the gen'rous Greeks relent , T'accept the ransom , and release the fair , Revere the priest and speak the joint assent , Not so the tyrant , he with kingly pride , Atrides ...
... Greeks their joint assent declare , The father said , the gen'rous Greeks relent , T'accept the ransom , and release the fair , Revere the priest and speak the joint assent , Not so the tyrant , he with kingly pride , Atrides ...
Page xxxiv
... Greeks translation was a language of the same general fabric with that of almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to ... Greek and Roman poetry into prose . I suppose many readers of the English ' Iliad , ' Whoever could read an ...
... Greeks translation was a language of the same general fabric with that of almost unknown ; it was totally unknown to ... Greek and Roman poetry into prose . I suppose many readers of the English ' Iliad , ' Whoever could read an ...
Page xxxvii
... Greek and Latin , attributed fected him . so much to Hobbs , that they confess they have I have been told that ... Greeks , which you have ob- served , I was led into by Chapman and Hobbs ; who are , it seems , as much celebrated ...
... Greek and Latin , attributed fected him . so much to Hobbs , that they confess they have I have been told that ... Greeks , which you have ob- served , I was led into by Chapman and Hobbs ; who are , it seems , as much celebrated ...
Page 204
... Greeks to steal them , was as wise ; More glorious yet , from barbarous hands to keep , When Sallee rovers chased ... Greek Dufour , to whom he related his adventure . Dufour , with- manner , renowned by fools , or renowned for ...
... Greeks to steal them , was as wise ; More glorious yet , from barbarous hands to keep , When Sallee rovers chased ... Greek Dufour , to whom he related his adventure . Dufour , with- manner , renowned by fools , or renowned for ...
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