| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Jj^vg&al is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 páginas
...that no man was unwilling to serve the Aluses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaycty and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...that no man was in willing to serve the Muses under 'iim. The general character of this translaion will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of he original. The peculiarity of Juvenal .aa mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of mini !•<! sentences,... | |
| Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1852 - 596 páginas
...Johnson's description of it is somewhat more favourable : " The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original." Is this correct ? Dryden frequently degrades the author into a jester; but i He evidently alludes to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 páginas
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 páginas
...that) no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity ; of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory... | |
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