The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, Tom 4J. Seagrave, 1806 |
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... passage Where the word reel suggests to you the idea of a drunken mountain , it performs the service to which I destined it . It is a bold metaphor ; but jus- tified by one of the sublimest passages in scripture , compared with the ...
... passage Where the word reel suggests to you the idea of a drunken mountain , it performs the service to which I destined it . It is a bold metaphor ; but jus- tified by one of the sublimest passages in scripture , compared with the ...
Strona 65
... passages as may be difficult to unlearned readers , and such only ; for notes of that kind are the notes that Johnson desired . I find it a more la- borious task , than the translation was , and shall be heartily glad when it is over ...
... passages as may be difficult to unlearned readers , and such only ; for notes of that kind are the notes that Johnson desired . I find it a more la- borious task , than the translation was , and shall be heartily glad when it is over ...
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... you to decide for me between two , one of which I have composed myself , a Greek one as follows : Εικονα τις ταυτην ; κλυτον ανέρος ενομ ' ολωλεν . Ονομα δ ' έτος ανήρ αφθιτον αιεν εχει . The other is my own translation of a passage in 82.
... you to decide for me between two , one of which I have composed myself , a Greek one as follows : Εικονα τις ταυτην ; κλυτον ανέρος ενομ ' ολωλεν . Ονομα δ ' έτος ανήρ αφθιτον αιεν εχει . The other is my own translation of a passage in 82.
Strona 83
... passage in the Odyssey , the original of which I have seen used as a motto to an engraved head of Homer many a time . The present edition of the lines stands thus , Him partially the muse , And dearly loved , yet gave him good and ill ...
... passage in the Odyssey , the original of which I have seen used as a motto to an engraved head of Homer many a time . The present edition of the lines stands thus , Him partially the muse , And dearly loved , yet gave him good and ill ...
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... passage in one of his Letters to me ) with a prospect that this intended poem might form a portion of a very ample original confederate work , which we hoped to produce in concert with the united powers of some admirable artists , who ...
... passage in one of his Letters to me ) with a prospect that this intended poem might form a portion of a very ample original confederate work , which we hoped to produce in concert with the united powers of some admirable artists , who ...
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