Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession of so many beauties of speech, it were desirable to know.... Aeneid I-VI - Page xlby Virgil - 1884Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It It is remarked by Watts, that jhere is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pop* has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possesskxj... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pop* has not inserted into his version of" Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...through a waste of snows, But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...superior performance. Johnson has justly denominated it a " poetical wonder," and Dr. Watts remarked, that " there is scarcely a happy combination of words or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which POPE has not inserted into his version of Homer." But still a complaint... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
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