 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Mr. Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him. to purchase. It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I deduce thus minutely the history of the Fnglish Iliad. It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. • , It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I deduce thus minutely the histovy of the English " Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1811 - 416 páginas
...about this period. — The first volume of " the Iliad" was published in 1715, the last in 172O. It is the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen, and its publication must be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning. In 1728, he published " the Dunciad,"... | |
 | William Bernard Cooke - 1811 - 324 páginas
...about this period. — The first volume of " the Iliad" was published in 1715, the last in 1720. It is the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen, and its publication must be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning. In 1 7 Js. he published " the Dunciad,"... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 354 páginas
...some parts of that admirable poem, the Tliad of Pope, concerning which I agree with Johnson, that " it is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen." Yet surely even a school-boy cannot read it without perceiving, from its deficiencies, redundancies,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 páginas
...[niceties] varieties of diction. " Strikes the imagination with far [mare]greater force. " It is [probably] certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen. " Every sheet enabled him to write the next with [less trouble] more facility. '• No man sympathizes... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 308 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I...noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen; audits publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 404 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I...one of the great events in the annals of Learning. O 2 To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I...one of the great events in the annals of Learning, o 2 To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be... | |
 | ARTHUR MURPHY - 1823 - 616 páginas
...hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. It cannot be unwelcome to literary curiosity, that I...one of the great events in the annals of Learning, a 2 To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be... | |
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Iliad." It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning. 
