Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His translation of Virgil - Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , and Fables - Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character 293 JOHN POMFRET . - 1667-1703 . Born at Luton , in ...
... translations from Juvenal , Ovid , and Persius - His translation of Virgil - Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , and Fables - Death and Burial in Westminster Abbey - Works and Character 293 JOHN POMFRET . - 1667-1703 . Born at Luton , in ...
Pàgina xv
... translation of Maimbourg to a period subsequent to his conversion , when it was well known that it appeared while Charles the Second was yet alive ; states positively — and in two places — that Dryden translated only one of Ovid's ...
... translation of Maimbourg to a period subsequent to his conversion , when it was well known that it appeared while Charles the Second was yet alive ; states positively — and in two places — that Dryden translated only one of Ovid's ...
Pàgina xvii
... , Mr. Thyer , Mr. Hampton ( the translator of Polybius ) , and Mrs. Porter the actress , are cited by name ; and his own wife , “ Rambler , ' No. 60 . he says , Miss Boothby , and Mrs. Piozzi are EDITOR'S PREFACE . xvii.
... , Mr. Thyer , Mr. Hampton ( the translator of Polybius ) , and Mrs. Porter the actress , are cited by name ; and his own wife , “ Rambler , ' No. 60 . he says , Miss Boothby , and Mrs. Piozzi are EDITOR'S PREFACE . xvii.
Pàgina xxiv
... translation of Tasso would supplant the earlier and nobler version of Fairfax . Johnson's life of Gray is a disparaging performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however ...
... translation of Tasso would supplant the earlier and nobler version of Fairfax . Johnson's life of Gray is a disparaging performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however ...
Pàgina xxxi
... translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course of things , become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources . Those ...
... translation found many admirers , and was read with pleasure by Pope himself . The time drew near at which Johnson would , in the ordinary course of things , become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources . Those ...
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