The Life of Alexander Pope: Esq. Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a Critical Essay on His Writings and Genius. By Owen Ruffhead, EsqC. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston, [and 8 others in London], 1769 - Electronic books - 578 pages |
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... translation of His family was of the Romish religion , in which he himself was educated , and conftantly profeffed but an oc- cafion will occur hereafter to fpeak more particularly of his religious principle . Homer , I Homer , and was ...
... translation of His family was of the Romish religion , in which he himself was educated , and conftantly profeffed but an oc- cafion will occur hereafter to fpeak more particularly of his religious principle . Homer , I Homer , and was ...
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... translated into French by other hands , and several verfions of it have fince appeared in the Latin language * . But whatever reputation our author may have gained by this didactic effay , in which he dif played fuch uncommon compass of ...
... translated into French by other hands , and several verfions of it have fince appeared in the Latin language * . But whatever reputation our author may have gained by this didactic effay , in which he dif played fuch uncommon compass of ...
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... translations of it in Italian , by the Abbé Conti , a noble Venetian ; and by the Mar- quis Rongons , envoy extraordinary from the Duke of Modena to the late king . There have likewife been Latin verfions of it ; and a profe irony of it ...
... translations of it in Italian , by the Abbé Conti , a noble Venetian ; and by the Mar- quis Rongons , envoy extraordinary from the Duke of Modena to the late king . There have likewife been Latin verfions of it ; and a profe irony of it ...
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... translated , " Till all diffolving in the trance we lay , " And in tumultuous raptures dy'd away . " These lines , it ... translation : * " Ecce , jacent collo fparfi fine lege capilli ; " Nec premit articulos lucida gemma meos . " Vefte ...
... translated , " Till all diffolving in the trance we lay , " And in tumultuous raptures dy'd away . " These lines , it ... translation : * " Ecce , jacent collo fparfi fine lege capilli ; " Nec premit articulos lucida gemma meos . " Vefte ...
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... translations were but a fort of exercises , while he was im- proving himself in the languages , and carried * The reader will recollect the fame fimile in Addison's Cato . by by his early bent to poetry , to perform them 178 THE LIFE OF.
... translations were but a fort of exercises , while he was im- proving himself in the languages , and carried * The reader will recollect the fame fimile in Addison's Cato . by by his early bent to poetry , to perform them 178 THE LIFE OF.
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