Poetical Works, 3. numberHoughton Mifflin, 1950 - 1095 pages |
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Page lviii
... translations of Virgil and did not scruple to take from them rhyme words and even whole lines , with slight alteration and some- times no alteration at all . His translation was published by subscription , and was issued from Tonson's ...
... translations of Virgil and did not scruple to take from them rhyme words and even whole lines , with slight alteration and some- times no alteration at all . His translation was published by subscription , and was issued from Tonson's ...
Page 91
... translation of Horace , attempted in the same compass of lines : nay , Horace himself could scarce have done it to a Greek poet : Brevis esse laboro , obscurus fio : either perspicuity or gracefulness will fre- quently be wanting ...
... translation of Horace , attempted in the same compass of lines : nay , Horace himself could scarce have done it to a Greek poet : Brevis esse laboro , obscurus fio : either perspicuity or gracefulness will fre- quently be wanting ...
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... translation , even , perhaps , farther than I should have done ; to his very faults . Mr. Chapman , in his translation of Homer , professes to have done it somewhat paraphras- tically , and that on set purpose ; his opinion being that a ...
... translation , even , perhaps , farther than I should have done ; to his very faults . Mr. Chapman , in his translation of Homer , professes to have done it somewhat paraphras- tically , and that on set purpose ; his opinion being that a ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | xvii |
EARLY POEMS | liv |
UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD | 1 |
Copyright | |
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