The Life of William Cowper, Esq: Compiled from His Correspondence and Other Authentic Sources of Information; Containing Remarks on His Writings, and on the Peculiarities of His Interesting Character, Never Before Published1834 - Всего страниц: 288 |
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... Iliad ; and merely to direct attention , and with no more preconception of what I was then entering upon , than I have at this moment of what I shall be doing this day twenty years hence , translated the first twelve lines of it . The ...
... Iliad ; and merely to direct attention , and with no more preconception of what I was then entering upon , than I have at this moment of what I shall be doing this day twenty years hence , translated the first twelve lines of it . The ...
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... Iliad , and mean to publish by subscrip- tion . I wish that all English readers had an unsophisticated and unadulterated taste , and could relish real simplicity . But , I am well aware , that in this respect , I am under a disadvantage ...
... Iliad , and mean to publish by subscrip- tion . I wish that all English readers had an unsophisticated and unadulterated taste , and could relish real simplicity . But , I am well aware , that in this respect , I am under a disadvantage ...
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... Iliad , and I verily thought so . But I was never more mistaken . By the time when I had reached the end of the poem , the first book of my version was a twelvemonth old . When I came to con- sider it , after having laid it by so long ...
... Iliad , and I verily thought so . But I was never more mistaken . By the time when I had reached the end of the poem , the first book of my version was a twelvemonth old . When I came to con- sider it , after having laid it by so long ...
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... Iliad , with no other help than a Clavis . But I have since equipped myself for this immense journey , and am revising the work in company with a good commentator . I thank you for the solicitude you express on the subject of my present ...
... Iliad , with no other help than a Clavis . But I have since equipped myself for this immense journey , and am revising the work in company with a good commentator . I thank you for the solicitude you express on the subject of my present ...
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... Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labor . Nature gave them a bent to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by genius . The rest they gave themselves . " " My first thirteen ...
... Iliad , nor Newton his Principia , without immense labor . Nature gave them a bent to their respective pursuits , and that strong propensity , I suppose , is what we mean by genius . The rest they gave themselves . " " My first thirteen ...
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