 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...hitherto been done by any translator, who has tolerably preferved either the fenfe or poetry. What 1 would further recommend to him, is to ftudy his author...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...hafte he was obliged to write in. He feems to have had too much regard to Chapman, whofe words he ther the fenfe or poetry. What I would further recommend...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...further recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from his own text, than from any commentators, how learned foever, or whatever figure they may make...above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the modems. Next thefe , the Archbifhop of Cambray's Telemachos may give him the trucil idea of the fpirit... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 396 pages
...done' by any tranflator, who has tolerably preferred either the fenfe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 338 pages
...done by any tranflator, who has 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 commentators, how learned foever, or whatever figure they may make in the eftimation of the world ;... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...done by any tranflator, who has tolerably preferved either the fcefe or poetry. What I would farther recommend to him, is to ftudy his author rather from...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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... to consider him attentively in comparison with Virgil above all the ancients, and with Milton above all the moderns. 
