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 appropri- ated 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 appropri- ated to Eurotas , as he is fpeaking of the river Thames , and has rendered it , THAMES heard the numbers , as he flow'd along , And ...
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... tranflation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into ( c < c < c your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pofe the chaplet which adorns your head . " * POPE has thus altered this ...
... tranflation , " Would " I could become a murmuring bee , fly into ( c < c < c your grotto , and be permitted to creep a- mong the leaves of ivy and fern that com- pofe the chaplet which adorns your head . " * POPE has thus altered this ...
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... tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of juft criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Baby- lonish captivity , inftantly introduces them ...
... tranflated , and inferted as a pattern of juft criticism . " THE prophet having predicted the deli- verance of the Jews , and their return into their own country from their rigorous Baby- lonish captivity , inftantly introduces them ...
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... tranflated from the fourth Geor- gic 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 con- jures the powers ...
... tranflated from the fourth Geor- gic 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 con- jures 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 ...
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