The Works of the English Poets, Volume 1J. Buckland, 1790 |
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Page 62
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , un- der the name of Anacreon . Of those fongs dedicated to feftivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
... translations of some little poems , which pass , however justly , un- der the name of Anacreon . Of those fongs dedicated to feftivity and gaiety , in which even the morality is voluptuous , and which teach nothing but the enjoyment of ...
Page 304
... Translated Verfe ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Mifcellanies : " It was my Lord Rofcommon's Eflay on Tranflated Verfe , " fays Dryden , " which " made me uneafy , till I tried whether or no " I was capable of ...
... Translated Verfe ; of which Dryden writes thus in the preface to his Mifcellanies : " It was my Lord Rofcommon's Eflay on Tranflated Verfe , " fays Dryden , " which " made me uneafy , till I tried whether or no " I was capable of ...
Page 305
... translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the ele- gance of the poetry , and confine it to the fenfe of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the author should ...
... translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . He that can abstract his mind from the ele- gance of the poetry , and confine it to the fenfe of the precepts , will find no other direction than that the author should ...
Page 306
... interpofition of a long paragraph of blank verses is unwarrantably licentious . La- tin poets might as well have introduced a feries of iambicks among their heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Hi 306 ROSCOMMON .
... interpofition of a long paragraph of blank verses is unwarrantably licentious . La- tin poets might as well have introduced a feries of iambicks among their heroicks . His next work is the translation of the Art of Hi 306 ROSCOMMON .
Page 307
... translation will not satisfy ; what he found obfcure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Ira are well tranflated ; though the best line in the Dies Ira is borrow- ed ...
... translation will not satisfy ; what he found obfcure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Ira are well tranflated ; though the best line in the Dies Ira is borrow- ed ...
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