The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Anacreon . Of these songs , dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , under the name of Anacreon . Of these songs , dedicated to festivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
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... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in ...
... translation , it may be very properly consulted as a commentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preserved . The following pretty lines are not such as his deep mouth was used to pour : Great Rhea's son , If in ...
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... translation from servility , and , în- stead of following his author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that , if he left versification yet improvable , he left likewise , from time to time , such specimens of excel- lence as ...
... translation from servility , and , în- stead of following his author at a distance , walked by his side ; and that , if he left versification yet improvable , he left likewise , from time to time , such specimens of excel- lence as ...
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... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstand- ing his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstand- ing his resolutions and professions , he returned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
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... translation of " Cato Major . " He now resided in France , as one of the followers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condi- tion , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occa- sional verses ; one of ...
... translation of " Cato Major . " He now resided in France , as one of the followers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condi- tion , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occa- sional verses ; one of ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical ..., Volumen1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1821 |
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