 As for its being esteemed a close translation, I doubt not, many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which proceeds not from his following the original, line by line, but from the contractions above mentioned.  A manual of classical bibliography - Page 521by Joseph William Moss - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen but through careleffnefs. His poetry, like Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm.' He left behind likewife feveral... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 436 pages
...above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no Writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 396 pages
...abovementioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...mentioned. He fometimes omits whole ftmilies and fentences, and is now and then guilty of millakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | 1792 - 918 pages
...mcntion•ed. He fometimi's omits whole limiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of tnidakcs, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through carelrffncfs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...abovementioned. He fometimes omits whole fimilics and leniences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticilm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole limiles and fentences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but through careleilhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifin. 'It is a great lofs to the... | |
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