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... poet , and wrote Pindaric odes to Temple , to the king , and to the Athenian society , a knot of obscure men , * who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told ...
... poet , and wrote Pindaric odes to Temple , to the king , and to the Athenian society , a knot of obscure men , * who published a periodical pamphlet of answers to questions , sent , or supposed to be sent , by letters . I have been told ...
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... poetry published by Lintot , commonly called 66 Pope's Miscellanies , " many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely con- nected . When the success of the " Iliad " gave en- couragement to a ...
... poetry published by Lintot , commonly called 66 Pope's Miscellanies , " many of his early pieces were inserted . Pope and Broome were to be yet more closely con- nected . When the success of the " Iliad " gave en- couragement to a ...
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... poet , it would be unjust to deny that he was an excellent versifier ; his lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable ; in his " Melancholy , " he makes breath , rhyme to ...
... poet , it would be unjust to deny that he was an excellent versifier ; his lines are smooth and sonorous , and his diction is select and elegant . His rhymes are sometimes unsuitable ; in his " Melancholy , " he makes breath , rhyme to ...
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... poetry by the perusal of " Ogilby's Homer " and Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogilby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys , he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his ...
... poetry by the perusal of " Ogilby's Homer " and Sandys ' Ovid . " Ogilby's assistance he never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys , he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his ...
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... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those masters he translated more than a fourth part of the " Metamor- phoses . " If he kept the same proportion in his other exercises , it cannot be thought that his loss was great . He tells of himself ...
... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those masters he translated more than a fourth part of the " Metamor- phoses . " If he kept the same proportion in his other exercises , it cannot be thought that his loss was great . He tells of himself ...
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