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... translation of other Latin phrases , the Latin quoted above is translated as follows : ' But why complain that banquet and bottle frighten poetry away ? Song loves Bacchus , and Bacchus loves songs . ' 16 I cite this example because ...
... translation of other Latin phrases , the Latin quoted above is translated as follows : ' But why complain that banquet and bottle frighten poetry away ? Song loves Bacchus , and Bacchus loves songs . ' 16 I cite this example because ...
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... translation of Homer , and from whom he had received a subscription for his Virgil . But the last line doubtless refers to Halifax's intention - which came to nothing - of erecting a monument to the poet's memory in Westminster Abbey ...
... translation of Homer , and from whom he had received a subscription for his Virgil . But the last line doubtless refers to Halifax's intention - which came to nothing - of erecting a monument to the poet's memory in Westminster Abbey ...
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... translator ' ; as Johnson was to observe in his later Life of Pope : ' Between Roman images and English manners ... translated , neither ancient nor modern ' . 30 As a young poet , however , he had himself brilliantly solved the ...
... translator ' ; as Johnson was to observe in his later Life of Pope : ' Between Roman images and English manners ... translated , neither ancient nor modern ' . 30 As a young poet , however , he had himself brilliantly solved the ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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