 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under...  Educational Review - Pagina 486a cura di - 1917Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 312 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 334 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when ' I have them... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1875 - 730 pagine
...instances, to the originals. Much valuable time, he considers, is lost in reading the latter. He likes to be beholden to the "great Metropolitan English...receives tributaries from every region under heaven." Three rules he lays down for our guidance. They are briefly, first, "never read any book that is not... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagine
...of him who can adequately place it. Representative Men. Shakespeare. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the...original, which I can procure in a good version. ... I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all... | |
 | Frederick William Ricord - 1879 - 230 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them... | |
 | 1879 - 760 pagine
...New York : Charle« T. Dillinghtun. Toronto : Urnrt & Rawlinsoti. lieholden,' as Emerson has it, ' to the great Metropolitan English speech, the sea...receives tributaries from every region under Heaven.' The writer has tried to reflect the poetry of England, and to preserve the language in all its purity... | |
 | 1880 - 516 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pagine
...fling at translators, — i traditori traduttori ; but I thank them. 1 rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - 1881 - 104 pagine
...equal melody. The Italians have a fling at translators — i tmduorl tnu.lu.Uori; but I thank them. I rarely read any Greek, Latin, German, Italian, sometimes...heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books ia originals, when I have them... | |
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