| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 636 páginas
...most masterly vindication of Pope to a very lame and impotent conclusion. ' If the writer of the Diad were to class his successors, he would assign a very...translator without requiring any other evidence of his genius.' And yet there are no mismeasurements in his appreciation of particular poems, and in his... | |
| 1928 - 748 páginas
...upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." The poets of a hundred and fifty years must be added to those " to whom the voice of mankind has decreed... | |
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