 | Homerus - 1720 - 382 sivua
...fhortnefs of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' carelefnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 sivua
...his learning could have fallen, but thro' ^ Y 2 carecareleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby*s, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to 'the...Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a final] part of the fixth ; in which if he has in fome places not truly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 sivua
...ihortnefs of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 sivua
...fallen,' but thix/ Y 2 careleflhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for critkifm. Jt is a great lofs to the poetical world that Mr. Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a final! part of the fixih ; in which if he has in fome places not truly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 sivua
...writer of his learning could have fallen, bat thro' careleflhcfs. His poetry, as well as Ogflby's, is too mean for criticifm. It is a great lofs to the...Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only die firtl book, and a fmall part <rf" the fixdi ; in which if he has in fome places not truly... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 sivua
...ceeds not from the following the original line by line, but from the contradtions above mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fentences, and...have fallen but through careleffnefs. His poetry, like Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm.' He left behind likewife feveral MSS. Mr. Francis Peck has... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 sivua
...fhortnefs of it, which proceeds not from his following the original line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles...which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffhefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for critidfm. It is a great lofs to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 sivua
...guilty of miflakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleflnefs. His poetry as well as Ogilby's, is too mean for criticifm....Dryden did not live to tranflate the Iliad. He has left us only the firft book, and a fmall part of the fixth ; in. which if he has in feme places not truly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 436 sivua
...of it, which proceeds not from his following the origirial line by line, but from the contractions above-mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles...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 - 1778 - 448 sivua
...by line, but from the contraftions above mentioned. He fometimes omits whole fimiles and fenfences, and is now and then guilty of miftakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen, but thro' careleffnefs. His poetry, as well as Ogilby's, is too mc.-n for criticifm. It is a great lois... | |
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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. 
