Letters Concerning Poetical Translations, and Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c..J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane., 1739 - 83 страница |
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... respects , it will hardly deserve the Name of a Tranflation . The two great Men amongst the Antients differ from each other as much in this particular as in the Subjects they treat of . The Stile of Homer , who B fings fings the Anger ...
... respects , it will hardly deserve the Name of a Tranflation . The two great Men amongst the Antients differ from each other as much in this particular as in the Subjects they treat of . The Stile of Homer , who B fings fings the Anger ...
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... respect : You have in it the Sufpence and Majefty of Virgil . The fecond is a good Tranflation , though not at all like Virgil , but exactly like Homer : There is no Hesitation , but the Verfe and the Matter hurry on together as fast as ...
... respect : You have in it the Sufpence and Majefty of Virgil . The fecond is a good Tranflation , though not at all like Virgil , but exactly like Homer : There is no Hesitation , but the Verfe and the Matter hurry on together as fast as ...
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... respect . At the beginning of the third Book of the Davi- deis , this is the Defcription of Goliah's Sword . A Sword fo great , that it was only fit " To take off his great Head , who came with it . Cowley . Here are ten dull Words moft ...
... respect . At the beginning of the third Book of the Davi- deis , this is the Defcription of Goliah's Sword . A Sword fo great , that it was only fit " To take off his great Head , who came with it . Cowley . Here are ten dull Words moft ...
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... respect to the Latin ) to find out the com mon Pause in English Verfe , that is , where the Voice naturally makes fome fort of Stop when a Verfe is read . To this purpose I look'd into Mr. Cowley's Davideis ( for it would be of no use ...
... respect to the Latin ) to find out the com mon Pause in English Verfe , that is , where the Voice naturally makes fome fort of Stop when a Verfe is read . To this purpose I look'd into Mr. Cowley's Davideis ( for it would be of no use ...
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... respect confifts in his removing the Adjective , the Substantive , and even the Verb , from the Line or Verfe in which the Sense is previously contained , and the grammatical Conftruction Conftruction inverted , to the Beginning of the ...
... respect confifts in his removing the Adjective , the Substantive , and even the Verb , from the Line or Verfe in which the Sense is previously contained , and the grammatical Conftruction Conftruction inverted , to the Beginning of the ...
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Æneid Alliteratio Alliteration Allufio Verborum Arthur Onslow auxiliary Verb becauſe Beginning Caïcus Carthage celebrated Lines Coaft Collocation concife Conclufion Cowley dedit Dryden Dunciad eafily Eneid English Language English Verfe Ennius Eridanus Erythraus Example faid fame fecond femper feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fing firft Line firſt foft fome fonitu Foot fpeaking ftrong fuch Goddeſs Greek Harmony Heav'n Homer Iambick Iliad Inftance infuper altos Italian itſelf juft laft laſt Latin Latin Language Letter Majefty Meaſure mighty Milton Milton's Verfification moft Monofyllables moſt Mufick muſt obferve occafion opaci Ovid Paffage Paradife Loft Paufe Pauſe perceiv'd Perfons Pit's plac'd pleaſe plural Numbers Poems Poetry poffible Pope Pow'r prefent Profe publick quæ quod raiſe Reaſon refpect rhym'd Verfe Rhyme Senfe Senſe Simois Stile Syllables taking notice terram thefe theſe Lines thing thoſe Tongue Tranflation Trapp uſe varying vero Verſe Virgil Voffius whence Words
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