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Page 186
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas ' s History of Heresies ;
and , when Burnet published ... Now , so if he thinks it is recovered by hịs Answer
, he will perhaps go on with w his translation ; and this may be , for aught I ...
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas ' s History of Heresies ;
and , when Burnet published ... Now , so if he thinks it is recovered by hịs Answer
, he will perhaps go on with w his translation ; and this may be , for aught I ...
Page 206
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed
in cur poetical translations of Ancient ... Feltham , his contemporary and
adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for
line .
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed
in cur poetical translations of Ancient ... Feltham , his contemporary and
adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for
line .
Page 223
Of Juvenaltlieic liad been a translation by Stapylton , and anotherby Holidày ;
neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holiday ' s is
more esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed to the
poets ...
Of Juvenaltlieic liad been a translation by Stapylton , and anotherby Holidày ;
neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holiday ' s is
more esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed to the
poets ...
Page 567
Their predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind
them , and that employment must have ... that the plays of Terence were versions
of Menander , nothing translated seems ever to have risen to high reputation .
Their predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind
them , and that employment must have ... that the plays of Terence were versions
of Menander , nothing translated seems ever to have risen to high reputation .
Page 568
In estimating this translation , consideration must be had of the nature of our
language , the form of our metre , and , above all , of the change which two
thousand years have made in the modes of life and the habits of thought . Virgil
wrote in a ...
In estimating this translation , consideration must be had of the nature of our
language , the form of our metre , and , above all , of the change which two
thousand years have made in the modes of life and the habits of thought . Virgil
wrote in a ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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