Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 頁 |
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... French translation of my Essay on Man gives the sense very well , and lays it more open ; which may be of good service says he showed this Essay to * See p . 20 , where he Walsh in 1706. M. to Mr. Dobson in any passages where he may ...
... French translation of my Essay on Man gives the sense very well , and lays it more open ; which may be of good service says he showed this Essay to * See p . 20 , where he Walsh in 1706. M. to Mr. Dobson in any passages where he may ...
第 18 頁
... number of the English , French , Italian , Latin , and Greek poets . This I did without any design but that of pleasing myself ; and got the lan- guages by hunting after the stories in the several poets 18 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
... number of the English , French , Italian , Latin , and Greek poets . This I did without any design but that of pleasing myself ; and got the lan- guages by hunting after the stories in the several poets 18 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
第 40 頁
... said to have taught myself Latin , as well as French or Greek , and in all three my chief way of The alphabet only , as he explained it after- wards . getting them was by translations . - The same . 40 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
... said to have taught myself Latin , as well as French or Greek , and in all three my chief way of The alphabet only , as he explained it after- wards . getting them was by translations . - The same . 40 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
第 49 頁
... dicere carmen . " Ecl . vi . 5 . + From about 13 or 14 to about 21 . ‡ This probably led Mr. Pope to writing his Essay on Criticism , which was in that period . E French , and Latin poets of any name ; the OF MEN AND BOOKS . 49.
... dicere carmen . " Ecl . vi . 5 . + From about 13 or 14 to about 21 . ‡ This probably led Mr. Pope to writing his Essay on Criticism , which was in that period . E French , and Latin poets of any name ; the OF MEN AND BOOKS . 49.
第 50 頁
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. French , and Latin poets of any name ; the minor poets ; Homer and some other of the greater Greek poets in the original , and Tasso and Ariosto in translations . The same . I even then liked Tasso more than ...
Joseph Spence Edmond Malone. French , and Latin poets of any name ; the minor poets ; Homer and some other of the greater Greek poets in the original , and Tasso and Ariosto in translations . The same . I even then liked Tasso more than ...
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第 133 頁 - That's very strange ; but. if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should' I have had ? A couple of lobsters; ay, that would have done very •well; two shillings; tarts, a shilling; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
第 112 頁 - One day, as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner : " and then gave him the plan for it.
第 134 頁 - A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings — tarts, a shilling : but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket? — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
第 136 頁 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
第 10 頁 - The next day, while I was heated with what I had heard, I wrote a letter to Mr. Addison to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his ; that if I...
第 148 頁 - Snch a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
第 129 頁 - Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard.
第 19 頁 - It was while I lived in the Forest, that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the classics in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together, three or four days in the week, and at last, almost every day.—Another of my earliest acquaintance was Walsh. I was with him at his seat in Worcestershire, for a good part of the summer of 1705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706.
第 47 頁 - P I endeavoured, (said he, smiling), in this poem, to collect all the beauties of the great epic writers into one piece : there was Milton's style in one part, and Cowley's in another; here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian.
第 62 頁 - He observed, how well that would hit my case, if I were to imitate it in English. After he was gone, I read it over ; translated it in a morning or two, and sent it to the press in a week or fortnight after. And this was the occasion of my imitating some other of the satires and epistles afterwards.