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... translation . When languages are formed upon different principles , it is impossible that the same modes of expression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closest translation may be considered as the best ...
... translation . When languages are formed upon different principles , it is impossible that the same modes of expression should always be elegant in both . While they run on together , the closest translation may be considered as the best ...
Page 181
... translator . Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapylton , and another by Holyday ; neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holyday's is more esteemed for the learn- ing of his notes . A new version ...
... translator . Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapylton , and another by Holyday ; neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holyday's is more esteemed for the learn- ing of his notes . A new version ...
Page 395
... translation behind them , and that employment must have had some credit in which Tully and Germanicus engaged ; but unless we suppose , what is perhaps true , that the plays of Terence were versions of Menander , nothing translated ...
... translation behind them , and that employment must have had some credit in which Tully and Germanicus engaged ; but unless we suppose , what is perhaps true , that the plays of Terence were versions of Menander , nothing translated ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards appears blank verse censure character considered conversation Cowley criticism death declared delight desire diction diligence Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English excellence expected faults favour friends genius Georgics happy honour Iliad images imagination imitation John Dryden John Wain Johnson kind King knew known labour language Latin learning letter lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax mentioned metaphysical poets Milton mind nature neglected never NIHIL numbers observed occasion once opinion Paradise Lost passions performance perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise produced published Queen reader reason received remarks reputation resentment rhyme Samuel Johnson satire Savage says seems sentiments solicited sometimes sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought told tragedy translation truth Tyrconnel verses Virgil virtue write written wrote