Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
... , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
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Samuel Johnson. the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's affiftance he never repaid with any praife ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his ...
Samuel Johnson. the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : Ogylby's affiftance he never repaid with any praife ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his ...
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... Homer's images and ex- preffions , and practice increafed his fa- cility of verfification . In a fhort time he represents himself as dispatching re- gularly fifty verfes a day , which would fhew him by an eafy computation the ...
... Homer's images and ex- preffions , and practice increafed his fa- cility of verfification . In a fhort time he represents himself as dispatching re- gularly fifty verfes a day , which would fhew him by an eafy computation the ...
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... Homer . To these he made no publick oppofition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like his , for he was not more than twenty - five , with an irre- gular gular education , and a courfe of life of ...
... Homer . To these he made no publick oppofition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like his , for he was not more than twenty - five , with an irre- gular gular education , and a courfe of life of ...
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... Homer than other poets , because his pofitions are general , and his reprefentations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on thofe changeable fcenes of artificial life , which , by min- gling original ...
... Homer than other poets , because his pofitions are general , and his reprefentations natural , with very little dependence on local or temporary customs , on thofe changeable fcenes of artificial life , which , by min- gling original ...
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