An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope, 1. köideM. Cooper, 1756 |
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... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dextrously dropt the laurels appropriated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , THAMES heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
... tranflating , Audiit EUROTAS , juffitque edifcere LAUROS he has dextrously dropt the laurels appropriated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , THAMES heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
Page 55
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil , * and happily adapted to the fubject in question . The fupplicating song at the beginning of the fixth ftanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he conjures the powers ...
... tranflated from the fourth Georgic of Virgil , * and happily adapted to the fubject in question . The fupplicating song at the beginning of the fixth ftanza , is highly pathetic and poetical , especially when he conjures the powers ...
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... tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that in my humble judgment he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story . I have lately feen a manuscript ode , entitled , " On the Ufe and ...
... tranflation of the paffages of the Georgics here alleged ; I only hint , that in my humble judgment he has omitted fome of the most striking incidents in the story . I have lately feen a manuscript ode , entitled , " On the Ufe and ...
Page 81
... tranflation , connected with verfes of his own . He perfuaded the upper boys to act this piece , which , from its curiofity , one would have been glad to have beheld . The mafter's gardener represented the character of Ajax ; and the ...
... tranflation , connected with verfes of his own . He perfuaded the upper boys to act this piece , which , from its curiofity , one would have been glad to have beheld . The mafter's gardener represented the character of Ajax ; and the ...
Page 87
... p . 230 . Crashaw has very well translated the dies ir¿ , to which tranflation , Rofcommon is much indebted , in his Poem on the day of Judgment . reader reader of all thofe poets ) POPE has very judiciously AND GENIUS OF POPE . 87.
... p . 230 . Crashaw has very well translated the dies ir¿ , to which tranflation , Rofcommon is much indebted , in his Poem on the day of Judgment . reader reader of all thofe poets ) POPE has very judiciously AND GENIUS OF POPE . 87.
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