The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 52
... translated . But so much meaning is comprised in so few words ; the particulars of resemblance are so perspica- ciously collected , and every mode of excellence separated from its adjacent fault by so nice a line of limitation ; the dif ...
... translated . But so much meaning is comprised in so few words ; the particulars of resemblance are so perspica- ciously collected , and every mode of excellence separated from its adjacent fault by so nice a line of limitation ; the dif ...
Page 53
... translation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting single words . How much this servile practice obscured the clearest and deformed the most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perusal of our ...
... translation from the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting single words . How much this servile practice obscured the clearest and deformed the most beautiful parts of the ancient authors , may be discovered by a perusal of our ...
Page 54
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then all those Who in the dark our fury did escape , Returning ...
... translation of Virgil , written when he was about twenty - one years old , may be still found the old manner of continuing the sense ungracefully from verse to verse : Then all those Who in the dark our fury did escape , Returning ...
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... translated or versified two Psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the public eye ; but they raise no ... translator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true , that Milton was the first Englishman who , after the revival of ...
... translated or versified two Psalms , 114 and 136 , which he thought worthy of the public eye ; but they raise no ... translator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true , that Milton was the first Englishman who , after the revival of ...
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... translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former govern- ment , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell ...
... translation may shew its servility ; but its elegance is less attainable . Having exposed the unskilfulness or selfishness of the former govern- ment , " We were left , " says Milton , " to ourselves : the whole national interest fell ...
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