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... chief employment of his latter years , as has been already intimated , was translation ; and in 1685 he published a volume of translations from a variety of the classical poets , Theocritus , Ovid , Lucretius , and others , to which he ...
... chief employment of his latter years , as has been already intimated , was translation ; and in 1685 he published a volume of translations from a variety of the classical poets , Theocritus , Ovid , Lucretius , and others , to which he ...
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... chief ornament of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of writers , is so conspicuous in your verses , that it casts a shadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be seen , or but obscurely , while you are present . You ...
... chief ornament of Virgil , which distinguishes him from the rest of writers , is so conspicuous in your verses , that it casts a shadow on all your contemporaries ; we cannot be seen , or but obscurely , while you are present . You ...
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... chief patron , Sir Philip Sidney , whom he intended to make happy by the marriage of his Gloriana , dying before him , deprived the Poet both of means and spirit , to accomplish his design : for the rest , his obsolete language , and ...
... chief patron , Sir Philip Sidney , whom he intended to make happy by the marriage of his Gloriana , dying before him , deprived the Poet both of means and spirit , to accomplish his design : for the rest , his obsolete language , and ...
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... chief enter- tainments . The Grecians had a notion of satires , whom I have already described ; and taking them . and the Sileni , that is , the young satyrs and the old , for the tutors , attendants and humble com- panions of their ...
... chief enter- tainments . The Grecians had a notion of satires , whom I have already described ; and taking them . and the Sileni , that is , the young satyrs and the old , for the tutors , attendants and humble com- panions of their ...
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... chief is Petronius Arbiter , whose satire , they say , is now printed in Holland , wholly recovered , and made complete : when it is made public , it will easily be seen by any one sentence , whether it be supposititious , or genuine ...
... chief is Petronius Arbiter , whose satire , they say , is now printed in Holland , wholly recovered , and made complete : when it is made public , it will easily be seen by any one sentence , whether it be supposititious , or genuine ...
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