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Page 277
Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the con- versation that he had set on between the Hinds and ...
Now , if he thinks it is recovered by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with his translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the con- versation that he had set on between the Hinds and ...
Page 307
It was re- served for Dryden to fix the limits of poetical liberty , and give us just rules and examples of translation . When languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of expres- sion ...
It was re- served for Dryden to fix the limits of poetical liberty , and give us just rules and examples of translation . When languages are formed upon different prin- ciples , it is impossible that the same modes of expres- sion ...
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Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapyl- ton , and another by Holiday ; neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holi- day's is more esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed ...
Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapyl- ton , and another by Holiday ; neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holi- day's is more esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed ...
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