The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 2
... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , not- withstanding his resolutions and professions , he re- turned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
... translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , not- withstanding his resolutions and professions , he re- turned again to the vice of gaming , and lost several thousand pounds that had been left ...
Pagina 3
... translation of Cato Major . He now resided in France , as one of the followers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one of which amuse ...
... translation of Cato Major . He now resided in France , as one of the followers of the exiled king ; and , to divert the melancholy of their condition , was sometimes enjoined by his master to write occasional verses ; one of which amuse ...
Pagina 6
... translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the ... translations and translators too , They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame , True to his sense , but truer to his ...
... translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline , Of tracing word by word and line by line . Those are the ... translations and translators too , They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame , True to his sense , but truer to his ...
Pagina 8
... translated . But so much meaning is comprised in so few words ; the particulars of re- semblance are so ... translation from the drudgery of counting lines , and interpret- ing single words . How much this servile practice ...
... translated . But so much meaning is comprised in so few words ; the particulars of re- semblance are so ... translation from the drudgery of counting lines , and interpret- ing single words . How much this servile practice ...
Pagina 10
... 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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