The Works of the English Poets: PrefacesH. Hughs, 1781 |
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... Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
... Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
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... Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
... Romish priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
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... Latin tongue .. By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap- pearance , and put January and ...
... Latin tongue .. By Dryden's Fables , which had then been not long published , and were much in the hands of poetical readers , he was tempted to try his own skill in giving Chaucer a more fashionable ap- pearance , and put January and ...
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... Latin printed on the op- pofite page , declared that from the rude fimplicity of the lines literally ren- dered , he formed nobler ideas of the Homeric majesty than from the laboured elegance of polished verfions . Thofe literal ...
... Latin printed on the op- pofite page , declared that from the rude fimplicity of the lines literally ren- dered , he formed nobler ideas of the Homeric majesty than from the laboured elegance of polished verfions . Thofe literal ...
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Samuel Johnson. thofe who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical tranflation of Eobanus Hus , an unwearied writer of Latin verses ; he had the ...
Samuel Johnson. thofe who find much in the Greek more than in the Latin , except the mufick of the numbers . If more help was wanting , he had the poetical tranflation of Eobanus Hus , an unwearied writer of Latin verses ; he had the ...
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