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" 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.... "
P. Vergili Maronis opera: The first six books of the Aeneid. 1863 - Page 23
by Virgil - 1863
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...through a wttate of f QOWS. 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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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 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 iu the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession...
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The Works of Alexander Pope ...

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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 ehgant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained...
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P. Vergili Maronis opera. The works of Virgil, with a comm. by J. Conington ...

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1863 - 586 pages
...somnolency are relieved by fanciful and even attractive dreams. Of the earlier epic poetry of Eome we know still less than of the later epic poetry of...language, which he has not inserted into his poems s;" but the use he made of his predecessors cannot have borne any analogy to the use he made of Homer....
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Geschichte der englischen Sprache: dargestellt in ihrem Verhältnisse zur ...

Gustav Schneider - English language - 1863 - 390 pages
...Ueberfefcen ber alten 6Iaf» ftfer grofe gpraéfertígfett eríangt ^abe. 93fr. Sffiattê fagt »on if)tn: 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. (Sr tl)at, fo ju fagen,...
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P. Vergili Maronis Opera, Volume 2

Virgil - Agriculture - 1876 - 606 pages
...estimated, would be found not to have penetrated very far. To inquire into the influence of Naeviua and Ennius upon Virgil is, in fact, as unfruitful...language, which he has not inserted into his poems T ;" but the use he made of his predecessors cannot have borne any analogy to the use he made of Homer....
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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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Aeneid I-VI

Virgil - 1884 - 704 pages
...or perhaps Cowley, upon Pope. Incidents and external colouring may occasionally have been l>orrowed; forms of expression and turns of rhythm may have been...converts his body into merchandise, and wears his v àirtipiTov' &s &pa r¿yt /л{\\оу fiAis <t>9ty£ o<r8ai игЬ irvocjcrtv "Epuras. Apoll. 3. 967,...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...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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Johnson's Life of Pope [ed.] by P. Peterson

Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 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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