 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...his learning could have fallen, but thro' ^ Y 2 carecareleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby*s, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to 'the...the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a final] part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted the fenfe, or preferved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...fallen,' but thix/ Y 2 careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for critkifm. Jt is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden...the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a final! part of the fixih ; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted the fcnfe, or preferved... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is...the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranihre the Iliad. He has left us only the firii book, and a fmall part of the fixth ; in which if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...writer of his learning could have fallen, bat thro' careleflhcfs. His poetry, as well as Ogflby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the...not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only die firtl book, and a fmall part <rf" the fixdi ; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen but through careleffnefs. His poetry, like Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm.' He left behind likewife feveral MSS. Mr. Francis Peck has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...could have fallen, but thro' careleffhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for critidfm. It is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr....live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firftbDok, and a fmall part of the fixth; in which if he has in fome places not truly interpreted the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 pages
...above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no Writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole ftmilies and fentences, and is now and then guilty of millakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 pages
...guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of Ms learning could have fallen, but through carek-ffnefs- His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm....the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranfhte the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a frnall part of the fixth ; in which if... | |
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I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned. 
