Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool ...
... Iliad , that English poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool ...
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... * . He therefore refolved to try how far the favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a verfion of the Iliad , with large notes . * Spence . To To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , 50 POPE .
... * . He therefore refolved to try how far the favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a verfion of the Iliad , with large notes . * Spence . To To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , 50 POPE .
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... Iliad to fubfcribers , in fix volumes in quarto , for fix guineas ; a fum , ac cording to the value of money at tha time , by no means inconfiderable , and greater than I believe to have been eve afked before . His propofal , however ...
... Iliad to fubfcribers , in fix volumes in quarto , for fix guineas ; a fum , ac cording to the value of money at tha time , by no means inconfiderable , and greater than I believe to have been eve afked before . His propofal , however ...
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... Iliad was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratifica- tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun- teracted by an edition equally ...
... Iliad was printed in Holland in Duodecimo , and imported clandeftinely for the gratifica- tion of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud could only be coun- teracted by an edition equally ...
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... Iliad ; and it appears from Fenton's Letter , preferved in the Museum , that Broome was at first engaged in confulting Euftathius ; but that after a time , whatever was the rea- fon , he defifted : another man of Cam- bridge was then ...
... Iliad ; and it appears from Fenton's Letter , preferved in the Museum , that Broome was at first engaged in confulting Euftathius ; but that after a time , whatever was the rea- fon , he defifted : another man of Cam- bridge was then ...
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