Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman and Greek grammarians ! know your better Author of something... The dunciad, in four books - الصفحة 143بواسطة Alexander Pope - 1777 - عدد الصفحات: 195عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...embarks on the work of liberation through the Letter itself. The Arch-Grammarian may ponder the Digamma ("tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, / Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all," IV.217-18) but he cannot take both forks of the Samian letter ("The letter Y, used by Pythagoras as... | |
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| John Edwin Sandys - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...like me shall make it prose again. Roman and Greek grammarians ' know your better, Author of something yet more great than letter ; While tow'ring o'er your...like Saul, Stands our digamma, and o'ertops them all '. In his 'Remarks' on the 'Discourse of Free-Thinking' by Anthony Collins, he protests against the... | |
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| 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 568
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| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...the word, furnished Pope with the material for a sarcasm in the well known lines : " While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our digamma and o'ertops them all." In preparing for an edition of Homer, a bold undertaking at any age, but truly Herculean for the septuagenarian,... | |
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