The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 1J. Stockdale and J. Walker, 1807 |
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Page 51
... poetry , adopt the language of Chaucer , as the only model he could take for a specimen of the English Doric . Spenser speaks in his own dialect , and , as the poet fays , Masks in the roughest veil the sweetest song . * Works , vol . x ...
... poetry , adopt the language of Chaucer , as the only model he could take for a specimen of the English Doric . Spenser speaks in his own dialect , and , as the poet fays , Masks in the roughest veil the sweetest song . * Works , vol . x ...
Page 52
... poetry ; the one elegant and polished , the other fimple and unadorned , in both which Theocritus excels . The remaining poems in the collection , confift of tranflations and imitations of Ho- race , Sophocles , and Theocritus ; Saul ...
... poetry ; the one elegant and polished , the other fimple and unadorned , in both which Theocritus excels . The remaining poems in the collection , confift of tranflations and imitations of Ho- race , Sophocles , and Theocritus ; Saul ...
Page 54
... poetry , and prac- tical morals , he complained that he was re- quired to attend dull comments on artificial ethics , and logic detailed in fuch barbarous Latin , that he profeffed to know as little of it as he then knew of Arabic . The ...
... poetry , and prac- tical morals , he complained that he was re- quired to attend dull comments on artificial ethics , and logic detailed in fuch barbarous Latin , that he profeffed to know as little of it as he then knew of Arabic . The ...
Page 57
... appointed ; he perused with great affiduity all the Greek poets and historians of note , and the entire works of Plato and Lucian , with a vaft apparatus of commentaries on them ; con- ftantly reading with a pen in his hand , mak- 57.
... appointed ; he perused with great affiduity all the Greek poets and historians of note , and the entire works of Plato and Lucian , with a vaft apparatus of commentaries on them ; con- ftantly reading with a pen in his hand , mak- 57.
Page 66
... Poetry , in imitation of Dr. Louth's Prelections at Oxford , on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews . The fummer of 1767 , opened a new scene to him ; the indifpofition of Lord Spencer ren- dered a journey to Spa advisable for the restor ...
... Poetry , in imitation of Dr. Louth's Prelections at Oxford , on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews . The fummer of 1767 , opened a new scene to him ; the indifpofition of Lord Spencer ren- dered a journey to Spa advisable for the restor ...
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