The Works Of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Ten Volumes Complete, With His Last Corrections, Additions, And Improvements. Containing The First Of His Letters. 7Nicolai, 1764 - 301 pages |
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Page 212
... TRANSLATED . Ah fleeting Spirit ! wand'ring fire , That long haft warm'd my tender breast , Must thou no more this frame inspire ? No more a pleasing , chearful guest ? Whither , ah whither art thou flying ! To what dark , undiscover'd ...
... TRANSLATED . Ah fleeting Spirit ! wand'ring fire , That long haft warm'd my tender breast , Must thou no more this frame inspire ? No more a pleasing , chearful guest ? Whither , ah whither art thou flying ! To what dark , undiscover'd ...
Page 258
... translated Milton into Italian verfe . If one who knows fo well how to write like the old Larin poets , came among them ; it would probably be a means to retrieve them from their cold , trivial conceits , to an imitation of their ...
... translated Milton into Italian verfe . If one who knows fo well how to write like the old Larin poets , came among them ; it would probably be a means to retrieve them from their cold , trivial conceits , to an imitation of their ...
Page 264
... , without Mathematics ; the other in the doctrine of Fate , without Philofophy ; and the third in the translation of Don Quixote , without Spanish . old house over the heads of fo many Painters . 264 AND LETTERS TO " J.
... , without Mathematics ; the other in the doctrine of Fate , without Philofophy ; and the third in the translation of Don Quixote , without Spanish . old house over the heads of fo many Painters . 264 AND LETTERS TO " J.
Page 289
... translation , at least into French profe , because to fee it done in verfe was defpair'd of : I believe in- deed , from a defect in that language , incapable of mounting to any degree of excellence fuitable to fo very great an ...
... translation , at least into French profe , because to fee it done in verfe was defpair'd of : I believe in- deed , from a defect in that language , incapable of mounting to any degree of excellence fuitable to fo very great an ...
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