This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...years old. This led me to Sandy's Ovid, which I liked extremely; and so I did a translation of part of Statius, by some very bad hand."--P. When I was about twelve, I wrote a kind of play, which I got to be acted by my schoolfellows. It was a number of speeches from the Iliad; tacked together with verses of my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...years old. This led me to Sandy's Ovid, which I liked extremely; and so I did a translation of part of Statius, by some very bad hand."--P. When I was about twelve, I wrote a kind of play, which I got to be acted by my schoolfellows. It was a number of speeches from the Iliad; tacked together with verses of my own.--The epic poem which I begun a little after I was twelve, was Alcander, prince of Rhodes: there was an under-watcr scene in the first book, it was in the Archipelago.--I wrote four books toward it, of about a thousand verses each; and had the copy by me, till I burnt it, by the advice of the Bishop of Rochester, a little before he went abroad.--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; r here the style of Spenser imitated, and there of Statius; here Homer and Virgil, and there Ovid and Claudian.---"It was an imitative poem then, as your other exercises were imitations of this or that story?"--Just that.--P. Mr. Pope wrote verses imitative of sounds so early as in this epic poem: --"Shields, helms, and swords all jangle as they hang, And sound formidinous with angry clang." Was a couplet of this nature in it?--There were also some couplets in it which I have since inserted in some of my other poems, without any alteration. As in the Essay on Criticism: --"Whose honours with increase of ages grow; As streams roll down enlarging as they flow." Another couplet, inserted in the Dunciad already mentioned. and I think he said the same of that simile: --"As clocks to weight their nimble motion owe; The wheels above urgM by the load below." In the scattered lessons I used to set myself, about that time, I...
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