 | Virgil - 1806 - 414 pàgines
...friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity oh me, and gave me the Life of Virgil, the two prefaces...taken their verses for my own, I might have gloried in their aid, and, like Terence, have fathered the opinion that Scipio and Lselius joined with me. But... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the " Life of Virgil," the two prefaces to the " Pastorals" and the " Gcorgics," and all the arguments in prose to the whole translation ; which, perhaps, has caused a... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 384 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the Life of Virgil, the two...the Arguments in prose to the whole translation." If Mr. Addison is one of the two friends, and the Preface to the Georgics be what the Editor calls... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the life of Virgil ; the two...taken their verses for my own, I might have gloried in their aid ; and, like Terence, have fathered the opinion that Scipio and Lœlius joined with me. But... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the life of Virgil ; the two...first poems are not mine. If it had been true that 1 had taken their verses for my own, I might have gloried in their aid ; and, like Terence, have fathered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the life of Virgil ; the two prefaces to the Pastorals and the Georgia, and all the arguments in prose to the whole translation: which, perhaps, has caused a report... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 500 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the life of Virgil, the two...the arguments in prose to the whole translation.' If Mr. Addison is one of the two friends, and the preface to the Georgics be what the editor calls... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 488 pàgines
...worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the life of Virgil, the two...the arguments in prose to the whole translation.' If Mr. Addison is one of the two friends, and the preface to the Georgics be what the editor calls... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pàgines
...friends " of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the Life of Virgil, the two Prefaces to the Pastorals and the Oeorgies, and all the Arguments in prose to the whole translation ; which, perhaps, has cansed a report,... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 488 pàgines
...friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed *^ seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the Life of Virgil, the two...prose to the whole translation ; which, perhaps, has occasioned a report, that the'two first poems are not wine. If it had been true that I had taken their... | |
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It is true, he might have easily found more; and then my translation had been more perfect. Two other worthy friends of mine, who desire to have their names concealed, seeing me straitened in my time, took pity on me, and gave me the Life of Virgil, the... 
