The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... learned to write by copying printed books , which he executed with great neatness and accuracy ; though his ordinary ... learned only to conftrue a little of " Tully's Offices , " which , after having translated " Ovid , " he might ...
... learned to write by copying printed books , which he executed with great neatness and accuracy ; though his ordinary ... learned only to conftrue a little of " Tully's Offices , " which , after having translated " Ovid , " he might ...
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... learned to read Homer in the original , as he himself records in one of his imitations of Horace . Bred up at home , full early I begun To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus ' fon . As he read the claffics , he amused himself with ...
... learned to read Homer in the original , as he himself records in one of his imitations of Horace . Bred up at home , full early I begun To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus ' fon . As he read the claffics , he amused himself with ...
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... learned author of the " Silva Critica " and another by Dr. Warton , the elegant author of the " Effays on the Genius and writings of Pope , " in 2 vols . 8vo . 1762 , and 1782 : A work abounding with information , learning and just ...
... learned author of the " Silva Critica " and another by Dr. Warton , the elegant author of the " Effays on the Genius and writings of Pope , " in 2 vols . 8vo . 1762 , and 1782 : A work abounding with information , learning and just ...
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... learned wondered at the tranflation . " It has been objected by fome , that it is not Homerical ; that it exhibits no refemblance of the ori- ginal and characteristic manner of the Father of Poetry , as it wants his awful fimplicity ...
... learned wondered at the tranflation . " It has been objected by fome , that it is not Homerical ; that it exhibits no refemblance of the ori- ginal and characteristic manner of the Father of Poetry , as it wants his awful fimplicity ...
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... learned their excellence from him , and that his dialect alone has a fecret charm in it , which no other could ever attain . Virgil , who copies l'heocritus , refines npon his original : and in all points , where judgment is principally ...
... learned their excellence from him , and that his dialect alone has a fecret charm in it , which no other could ever attain . Virgil , who copies l'heocritus , refines npon his original : and in all points , where judgment is principally ...
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