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... translation . When languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of ex- pression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closet translation may be considered as the ...
... translation . When languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of ex- pression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closet translation may be considered as the ...
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... translator . He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them ... translation . The authority of Horace , which the new translators cited in defence of their practice , he has , by a ...
... translator . He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them ... translation . The authority of Horace , which the new translators cited in defence of their practice , he has , by a ...
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... translated it at school ; but not that he preserved or published the juvenile performance . Not long afterwards he undertook , perhaps , the most arduous work of its kind , a translation of Virgil , for which he had shown how well he ...
... translated it at school ; but not that he preserved or published the juvenile performance . Not long afterwards he undertook , perhaps , the most arduous work of its kind , a translation of Virgil , for which he had shown how well he ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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