The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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Page xxxix
... Æneid ; it appears that Dryden began his Æneid in the summer of 1694 , * and it was published in the July of 1697 . He was dealt with in a penurious manner by old Tonson , who would allow him nothing for the annotations which he was ...
... Æneid ; it appears that Dryden began his Æneid in the summer of 1694 , * and it was published in the July of 1697 . He was dealt with in a penurious manner by old Tonson , who would allow him nothing for the annotations which he was ...
Page 327
... Æneid . The third way is that of imi- tation , where the translator ( if now he has not lost that name ) assumes the liberty , not only to vary from the words and sense , but to forsake them both as he sees occasion ; and taking only ...
... Æneid . The third way is that of imi- tation , where the translator ( if now he has not lost that name ) assumes the liberty , not only to vary from the words and sense , but to forsake them both as he sees occasion ; and taking only ...
Page 328
... Æneid . " Poetry is of so subtile a spirit , that , in pouring out of one language into another , it will all evaporate ; and , if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion , there will remain no- thing but a Caput Mortuum , " I ...
... Æneid . " Poetry is of so subtile a spirit , that , in pouring out of one language into another , it will all evaporate ; and , if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion , there will remain no- thing but a Caput Mortuum , " I ...
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