 | Joseph William Moss - 1825 - 818 pagine
...(2 vols.)8vo.!772, (4 vols.) and 1809 (3vols.) Translated from the Greek by Mr. Hampton.* It 1*. " The English translator has preserved the admirable...Monboddo might wish for a Version into Attic Greek." Gibbon. LoND.4to. 1764. Two extracts from the sixth book of the General History of Polybius. To which... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 588 pagine
...Dialogues of Plato, and Hampton's Translotion ofPolybius." c Of this Translation Gibbon said " that the English Translator has preserved the admirable...Monboddo might wish for a version into Attic Greek." " His (Burke's) first avowed Work, the Vindication of Natural Society, which came out in the spring... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 716 pagine
...but, if vice and folly could justify thy ' parsimony, would they not condemn the bounty of Heaven ? grammarian, like Dionysius, might despise Polybius...Monboddo might wish for a version into Attic Greek." ' If not upon the foolish and the vicious, where shall the sun ' diffuse his light, or the clouds distil... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1828 - 706 pagine
...honour ! He has ordained sleep to be the minister of instruction, and his ri.sed by Gibbon : — " The English Translator has preserved the admirable...improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original. A visions have reproved me in the night. As I was sitting alone in my Harem, with my lamp burning before... | |
 | JOHN BOHN - 1829 - 586 pagine
...vols.Svo. (pvb.at II.) bds. 12*. Oxford, 1823 5031 the same, 2 vols. 8vo. calf gilt, 18s. ib. 1823 " The English translator has preserved the admirable...improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original."— Gibbm.— " Belne, in his Anerdotes of Literature, ascribes the Preface to Dr. Johnson; and Mr. Barker... | |
 | Joseph William Moss - 1837 - 806 pagine
...from the Greek by Mr. Hampton.* 11. Is. " The English translator has preserved the admirable sense sud improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original....Monboddo might wish for a Version into Attic Greek." Gibbon. LOND. 4to. 1764. Two extracts from the sixth book of the General History of Polybius. To which... | |
 | Charles V. Incledon - 1837 - 728 pagine
...Armstrong. POLYBIUS, tranelated by Hampton, last and best edition, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, Is 6d Oxford, 1823 " The English translator has preserved the admirable sense, and improved the coarse style of his Areadian,'' — GIBBON. Bsloe in his Anecdotes *f Literatur* aseribes the I'refnce to Dr. .lohnim.... | |
 | JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN - 1843 - 832 pagine
...(pub. at II.) bds. 12s. Oxford, 1823 9480 the same; 2 vols. 8vo, calf gilt, 18*. ib. 1823 " The Knglisb translator has preserved the admirable sense, and improved the coarse style, of his Arcadian ordinal." — Gibbon. Beloe (Antcdottt of Literaturt) ascribes the preface to Dr. Johnson ; and Barker... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pagine
...the General History of, from the Greek, by the Rev. James Hampton. 8vo. 4 vols. London, 1772-73. " The English translator has preserved the admirable...improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original." — (Gibbon, Misc. Works, v. 588.) Pomponii Melse de Situ Orbis libri III. notis var., edente Schotto.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pagine
...tune.' 4 Post, ROWE, 35 n. Johnson reviewed this translation in 1756. Johnson's Works, vi. 77. 'The translator has preserved the admirable sense, and...improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original.' GIBBON, Misc. Works, v. 588. 5 Ante, COWLEY, 33 ; post, MILTON, 176. 6 'Haddon had certainly laboured... | |
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The English translator has preserved the admirable sense, and improved the coarse style of his Arcadian original. A grammarian, like Dionysius, might despise Polybius for not understanding the structure of words ; and Lord Monboddo might wish for a version... 
