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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose - Page 309
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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The Iliad, tr. by mr. Pope. [With notes partly by W. Broome. Preceded by] An ...

Homerus - 1720 - 382 pages
...has tolerably prcferved eitherthi fenfe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to fhuly his author rather from his own text, than from any commentaries, how learned focvcr, or whatever figure they may make in the eilimation of the world; to confider him attentively...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...tolerably preferved either the fenfe or poetry. What 1 would further recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text, than from any...Archbifhop of Cambray's Telemachus may give him the trued idea of the fpirit and turn of our author, and BofTu's admirable treatife of the Epic poem the...
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Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...Chapman, whofe words he ther the fenfe or poetry. What I would further recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text, than from any...eftimation of the world ; to confider him attentively in companion with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next thefe, the...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...make in the eftimation of the world ; to confirfcr him attentively in comparifon with Virgil abort all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next thefe, the Archbifhop of Cam bra % '• Telemachus may give him the trueft idea of the fpirit and turn of our author, and Sofia's...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...farther recommend to him, is tc lludy his author rather from his own text, than from any commentators, how learned foever, or whatever figure they may make...eftimation of the world ; to confider him at'tentively in coinparifon with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next thefe,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...whatever figure they may make in the eftimation ot'lhe world ; toconfider him attentively in companibn with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Nextthefe, the Archhifhop of Cainbray's Tclemachus may give him the truert idea of the ipirit and tiirn...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volume 35

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 462 pages
...tolerably preferved either the fenfe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text, than from any...with Milton above all the moderns. Next thefe, the archbimop of Cambray's Telemachus may give him the trueft idea of the fpirit and turn of our author,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope's Homer

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 396 pages
...tolerably preferred either the fenfe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text, than from any...they may make in the eftimation of the. world ; to conf:der him attentively in comparifon with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...tolerably preferved either the fcefe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text than from any...learned foever, or whatever figure they may make in the eliimation of the world ; to coniidi-r him attentively in companion with Virgil above all the ancients,...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey ...

1792 - 918 pages
...may make in the eftimition of the world ; to conCder him attentively in comparifon with Virgil shove all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. Next thefe, the archbifhop of Cambray's Tclcrnachus may give him the trneft idea 3 HOMER. of the fpirit and turn of our author, and Boflu\...
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