 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 páginas
...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 - 1760 - 436 páginas
...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 - 1779 - 396 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1790 - 1058 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 550 páginas
...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 - 1806 - 508 páginas
...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, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 páginas
...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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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. 
