 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...Rome, x 4 adorned adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...faid of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifti poetry embellifhed by Dryden, lateritlam invenit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. • j9o THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...Auguftus, may be applied by aa eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, lateririam im-enit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...faid of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to EngliJh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...faid of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit," He found it brick, and he left it marble.v~-v THE) <— • •**'^ THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Melbourne's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor phorto Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...faid of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inferted from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...reliquit; he found it brick, and he left it marble. DENHAM \VAS born at Dublin in 1615, the only son of Sir John Denham, of Little Horsely in Essex, then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...faid of Rome, adorned by Auguftus, may be applied by an eafy metaphor to Englifh poetry embellifhed by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inferred from Mr. Milbourne's verfion, that, according to his... | |
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What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble. 
