 | 1750 - 434 страници
...I begun this Firft Book, I had fome Thoughts or Tranflating the whole Iliad : but had the Pleaiure of being diverted from that Defign, by finding the...would not therefore be thought to have any other View in publifhing this fmall Specimen of Homer's Iliad, than to befpeak, it poffible, the Favour of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 256 страници
...reader, that when I began this firft book, I had fome thoughts of tranflating the whole Iliad : but had the pleafure of being diverted from that defign,...would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publi(hing this fmall fpecimen of Homer's Iliad, than to befpeak, if poflible, the favour of the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 страници
...publications on the fiibjeft : " I muft inform the reader, that when I began this firft book, I had fome thoughts of tranflating the whole Iliad ; but I had...diverted from that defign, by finding the work was • Page 191. t Letter from Jervas, zoth Auguft, 1714. J *7tU Auguit, 1714. ' § loth Oflober, 1714||... | |
 | 1795 - 766 страници
...of tranflating the whole Iliad : but had the pleafure of being diverted from that defign, by rinding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publifhing this fmall fpecimen of Homer's Iliad, than to bcfpeak, if polliblc, the favour of the... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 страници
...had fome thoughts of tranuating the whole Iliad ; but I had the pleafure of being <iivf 1 1 • • i from that defign, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler haad ; \ would not, therefore, he thought to have any other view in publifliifu; this finall fpecimen... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 502 страници
...reader, that when I began this firil book, I had fome thoughts of tranflating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleafure of being diverted from that defign,...would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publifhing this fmall fpecimen of Homer's Iliad, than to befpeak, if poflible, the favour of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 486 страници
...reader, that when I began this firft book, I had fome thoughts of tranflating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleafure of being diverted from that defign,...would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publifhing this fmall fpecimen of Homer's Iliad, than 'to befpeak, if pofTible, the favour of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 490 страници
...I began this firft book, I had fome thoughts of tranflating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleafurc of being diverted from that defign, by finding the...would not therefore be thought to have any other view in publifhing this fmall fpecimen of Homer's Iliad, than to bcfpeak, if poffible, the favour of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 страници
...thoughts of translating the whole lliiiil : but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be thought to have any oilier view in publishing this small specimen of Homer's Iliad, than tu bespeak, if possible, the favour... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 страници
...thoughts of translating the whole' Iliad : but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore lie thought to have any other view in publishing this small specimen of ikuner's Iliad, than to bespeak,... | |
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I must inform the reader that, when I began this first book, I had some thoughts of translating the whole Iliad ; but had the pleasure of being diverted from that design, by finding the work was fallen into a much abler hand. I would not therefore be... 
