 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1860 - 298 páginas
...8s. 6d. LAHGE PAPER. Freeling. Presentation copy, 2f. 10s. '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.' Dr, Johnson. — 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1398, 8s.— 1702. Willett, 1397, 3s.- 1711, 8vo. Roxburghe, 2706,... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1860 - 298 páginas
...6d. LARGE PAPER. Freeling. Presentation copy, 2/. 10s. ' 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.' Dr. Johnson.— 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1398, 8s.— 1702. Willett, 1397, 3s.— 1711, 8vo. Roxburghe, 2706,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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... | |
 | Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1876 - 588 páginas
...Johnson's description of it is somewhat more favorable : " 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 1 He evidently alludes to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1890 - 642 páginas
...Presentation copy, SI. 10s. 'The general character of this translation will be given, when it is eaid to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.' Dr. Johnson. — 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1898, 8s— 1702. Willett, 1397, Sa.- 1711, 8vo. Roxhurghe, 1706,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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 - 1899 - 216 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 - 1913 - 220 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 10 of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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... | |
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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. 
