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... language and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French Academy thought that they refined ...
... language and fixing its standard ; in imitation , says Fenton , of those learned and polite societies with which he ... language was refined , and so fixed that it has changed but little . The French Academy thought that they refined ...
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... language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of Ancient Writers ; a work which the French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary ...
... language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of Ancient Writers ; a work which the French seem to relinquish in despair , and which we were long unable to perform with dexterity . Ben Jonson thought it necessary ...
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... language so much inferior in harmony to the Latin , it cannot be expected that they who read the Georgics and the Æneid should be much delighted with any version . All these obstacles Dryden saw , and all these he determined to ...
... language so much inferior in harmony to the Latin , it cannot be expected that they who read the Georgics and the Æneid should be much delighted with any version . All these obstacles Dryden saw , and all these he determined to ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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