 | William Pickering - 1834 - 426 pages
...affection, and translated many of his Latin poems ; in a letter addressed to a friend, he says, " I Iflve the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 480 pages
...that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would, in English, have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Auso* The privilege of franking letters was formerly exercised in a very different manner... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 372 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Auso* The privilege of franking letters was formerly exercised in a very different manner... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 384 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Auso* The privilege of franking letters was formerly exercised in a very different manner... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 400 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point which, though smart enough in the Latin, would, in English, have appeared as plain, and as blunt, as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all sc — 4. H inferior... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 388 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain and as blunt as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Auso* The privilege of franking letters was formerly exercised in a very different manner... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 390 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point which, though smart enough in the Latin, would, in English, have appeared as plain, and as blunt, as the tag of...Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 pages
...affection; and he has left an interesting character of him in a letter to the Eev. William Unwin: — "I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him.... | |
 | Vincent Bourne - 1840 - 374 pages
...original, that I was obliged to sharpen a point, which, though smart enough in the Latin, would in English have appeared as plain, and as blunt, as the tag of a lace. I love the memory ofVinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the... | |
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I love the memory of Vinny Bourne. I think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to him. 
