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Page 88
... Pindaric Odes , written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar . " If ( says Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , 88.
... Pindaric Odes , written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar . " If ( says Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , 88.
Page 89
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that understands not the original , reads the verbal ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Cowley ) a man should undertake to translate Pindar , word for word , it would be thought that one madman had translated another ; as may appear , when he , that understands not the original , reads the verbal ...
Page 308
... PINDAR . Nem . Ode xi . This has been my Object , and this alone can be my Defence - and O ! that with this my personal as well as my LITERARY LIFE might conclude ! the unquenched desire I mean , not without the consciousness of having ...
... PINDAR . Nem . Ode xi . This has been my Object , and this alone can be my Defence - and O ! that with this my personal as well as my LITERARY LIFE might conclude ! the unquenched desire I mean , not without the consciousness of having ...
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