...paintings, while he describes the simple manners of the first inhabitants of the earth. All our anthor's works, of which this is the first that has been translated...middle species between verse and prose : it has the beanties of the first, with the ease of the last. It is not however peculiar to Mr. Gessner ; for in...

...the first that has been translated into English, are written in a hind of loose poetry, unshackl'd by the tagging of rhymes or counting of syllables....ease of the last. It is not, however, peculiar to Mr. Gesner ; for in this manner the great Fenelon wrote his Telemachus, of which the Public has been favor...

...first English translator, Mary Collyer, anticipates by a century and a half the modernists — 'it is wrote in a kind of loose poetry, unshackled by the...has the beauties of the first, with the ease of the last.'*5 The 'loose poetry' which 'the ingenious Mrs. Collyer' herself essays, in her zeal to emulate...

...translator, Mary Collyer, anticipates by * century and a half the modernists — 'it is wrote in a kind »f loose poetry, unshackled by the tagging of rhymes,...beauties of the first, with the ease of the last.'** The 'loose poetry' which 'the ingenious Mrs. Collyer' herself essays, in her zeal to emulate 'the almost...