 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...humble. In the proper choice of ftyle confifts the refemblance which Dryden principally exacts from oz the the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's...author would have given them, had his language been Englifli : rugged magnificence is not to be foftened : hyperbolical oftentation is not to be repreffed,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...proper choice of ftyle confins the refemblance which Dryden principally exacls from the tranflaror. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in fuch a drefs of diflion as the author would have given them, had his language been Engliíh : rugged magniЯсепсе... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...humble. In the proper choice of ftyle conlifts the refemblance which Dryden principally exads from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts...author would have given them, had his language been Englim : rugged magnificence is not to be foftened : hyperbolical oftentation is not to be reprefled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 476 pages
...humble. In the proper choice of ftyle confifts the refemblance which Dryden principally exacts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in fuch a drefs of didlion as the author would have given them, had his language been Englifh : rugged magnificence is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...humble. In the proper choice of ftyle confifts the refemblance which Dryden princfjpally, exacts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts...a drefs of .diction as the author would have given themj had his language been Englifh: rugged magnifipence is not to be foftened: Jiyperbplical oftentation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...cfrpice p| ftyle confifts the rejfelnblance wj^ieji £}rydejn principally exacts f^on? $.? ^ranflator, He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in fuch a. drefs of diction as the author \voyld h^aye given them, had his language been Englifh; rugged magnificence is not to be foftened :... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...humble. In the. proper choice of ftyle confifts tlie refemblance which Dryden principally exacts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts...language been Englifh : rugged magnificence is not to be foftencd; hyperbolical oftentation is not to be repreiied ; nor fententious affectation to have its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...humble. In thtf proper choice of ftyle confifts the refemblance which Dryden principally exacts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts...of diction as the author would have given them, had hi* language been Englifh: rugged magnificence is not to b'i ibftened ; hyperbolical oftentation is... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...principally exafts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in ftich a drefs of diftion as the author would have given them, had his language...magnificence is not to be foftened ; hyperbolical oftentatioil is not to be reprefled ; nor fententious affeflation to have its points blunted. A tranflator... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...humble. In the proper choice of ftyle confifts the refemblance which Dryden principally exacts from the tranflator. He is to exhibit his author's thoughts...repreffed ; nor fententious affectation to have its point blunted. A tranflator is to be like his author; it is not his bufinefs to excel him. The reafonablenefs... | |
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He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them, had his language been English... 
