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... qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . ... that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to ...
... qualify their reader for a better performance of translation than might have been attained by his own reflections . ... that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to ...
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The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed in our poetical translations of ... his con- temporary 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 our poetical translations of ... his con- temporary and adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for line .
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The general character of this translation will be given , when it is said to preserve the wit , but to want the dignity of the original . The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness , of pointed sentences and ...
The general character of this translation will be given , when it is said to preserve the wit , but to want the dignity of the original . The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness , of pointed sentences and ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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