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Pagina 20
... spirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , “ I have been up all night , replied the old bard ; my mufical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their feaft of St. Cæcilia : I have been fo ftruck with the • Vol ...
... spirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , “ I have been up all night , replied the old bard ; my mufical friends made me promise to write them an ode for their feaft of St. Cæcilia : I have been fo ftruck with the • Vol ...
Pagina 22
... spirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been ...
... spirit ; but his images are gi- gantic and outrageous , and his fentiments tortured and hyperbolical . It can hardly , I think , be doubted , but that Juvenal in- tended a fevere fatire on him , in these well known lines which have been ...
Pagina 25
... spirit of POPE's youthful translation , I shall select the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell ; Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing snake ...
... spirit of POPE's youthful translation , I shall select the following paffage . He fends a monfter horrible and fell ; Begot by furies in the depth of hell . The pest a virgin's face and bofom wears ; High on a crown a rifing snake ...
Pagina 38
... spirit with this fpell Of my own teaching I am caught . • Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar ...
... spirit with this fpell Of my own teaching I am caught . • Speaking of his imitations , POPE faid to Mr. Spence , " I had once a defign of giving a tafte of all the Greek poets ; I would have translated a hymn of Homer , an ode of Pindar ...
Pagina 107
... spirit of Demofthenes , and an image worthy of the genius of Homer * . 45 . Such is the world's great harmony , that springs From order , union , full consent of things t THERE is no where to be found fo per- fect an illustration of ...
... spirit of Demofthenes , and an image worthy of the genius of Homer * . 45 . Such is the world's great harmony , that springs From order , union , full consent of things t THERE is no where to be found fo per- fect an illustration of ...
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