...translation ol Pope will perhaps always retain its pre-eminence, and be considered what Johnson calls it, " the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen," and •' its publication one of the greatest events in th« annals of learning."* Of the merits of Cowper's translation, we...

...completed in 171 Dr. Johnson says, " It is certainly the noblest version of poetry which the world hi ever seen ; and its publication must therefore be considered as one of the great even in the annals of learning." V Pope had entertained a sincere respect and friendship for Addison...

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...five hundred pounds a year, payable to Pope, which doubtless his translation enabled him to purchase. its publication must therefore be considered AS one of the great events in the annals of Jearning. The original copy -of the Iliad was obtained by Bolingbroke as a curiosity ; it descended...

...English verse the great poem of Homer, and that translation is pronounced by Dr. Samuel Johnson, to be " the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen," and he considers its publication as " one of the great events in the annals of learning." He translated...

...English verse the great poem of Homer, and that translation is pronounced by Dr. Samuel Johnson, to be " the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen," and he considers its publication as " one of the great events in the annals of learning." He translated...

...translation of Pope will perhaps always retain its pre-eminence, and be considered what Johnson calls it, " the noblest version of poetry which the world has ever seen," and " its publication one of the greatest events in the annals of learning."* Of the merits of Cowper' s translation, we...

...thongh not an ultra admirer of Pope, has said of this translation, " It is certainly the noblest vension 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." — (Life of Pope. See, also,...

...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...which the world has ever seen ; and its publication most therefore be considered as one of the great events in the annals of learning. To those who have...

...[niceties] varieties of diction. " Strikes the imagination with far [more] 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...