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... with great perfpicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less fkill feem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though F 2 the it the English ode cannot be called a translation , COWLEY . 67.
... with great perfpicuity , and the thoughts , which to a reader of less fkill feem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though F 2 the it the English ode cannot be called a translation , COWLEY . 67.
Page 68
Samuel Johnson. it the English ode cannot be called a translation , may be very properly confulted as a com- mentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pretty lines are not fuch as his deep ...
Samuel Johnson. it the English ode cannot be called a translation , may be very properly confulted as a com- mentary . The spirit of Pindar is indeed not every where equally preferved . The following pretty lines are not fuch as his deep ...
Page 119
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be ftill found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse . " Then all thofe " Who in the dark our fury did escape , Returning ...
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be ftill found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse . " Then all thofe " Who in the dark our fury did escape , Returning ...
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... translator's genius ; that he should be fuch as may deferve a tranflation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perfpicuity should be ftudied , and unusual and uncouth names fpa fparingly ...
... translator's genius ; that he should be fuch as may deferve a tranflation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perfpicuity should be ftudied , and unusual and uncouth names fpa fparingly ...
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... what he found obfcure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Ira are well translated ; though though the best line in the Dies Ira is bor- 326 . ROSCOM oscoMMON MO N.
... what he found obfcure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Ira are well translated ; though though the best line in the Dies Ira is bor- 326 . ROSCOM oscoMMON MO N.
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