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Página 186
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's History of Heresies ;
and , when Burnet published remarks upon it ... Now , “ if he thinks it is recovered
by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with “ his translation ; and this may be , for ...
He was supposed to have undertaken to translate Varillas's History of Heresies ;
and , when Burnet published remarks upon it ... Now , “ if he thinks it is recovered
by his Answer , he will perhaps go on with “ his translation ; and this may be , for ...
Página 206
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed
in our poetical translations of Ancient ... Feltham , his contemporary and
adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for
line .
The affluence and comprehension of our language is very illustriously displayed
in our poetical translations of Ancient ... Feltham , his contemporary and
adversary , considers it as indispensably requisite in a translation to give line for
line .
Página 223
Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapylton , and another by Holiday ;
neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holiday's i pore
esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed 10 the poets
...
Of Juvenal there had been a translation by Stapylton , and another by Holiday ;
neither of them is very poetical . Stapylton is more smooth , and Holiday's i pore
esteemed for the learning of his notes . A new version was proposed 10 the poets
...
Página 261
... of arts , he published à confutation of Varillas's account of Wicliffe ; and ,
engaging in the study of the Civil Law , became doctor in 1692 , and was
admitted advocate ar Doctors Commons . He had already made some
translations from the ...
... of arts , he published à confutation of Varillas's account of Wicliffe ; and ,
engaging in the study of the Civil Law , became doctor in 1692 , and was
admitted advocate ar Doctors Commons . He had already made some
translations from the ...
Página 567
To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally ... Their
predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind them ,
and that employment must have had some credit in which Tully and Germanicus
engaged ...
To the Greeks translation was almost unknown ; it was totally ... Their
predecessors the Romans have left some specimens of translation behind them ,
and that employment must have had some credit in which Tully and Germanicus
engaged ...
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Página 565 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 559 - Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation, and those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.
Página 11 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 82 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem, which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place, and with respect to performance the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 218 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Página 559 - ... nor often to mend what he must have known to be faulty. He wrote, as he tells us, with very little consideration ; when occasion or necessity called upon him, he poured out what the present moment happened to supply, and, when once it had passed the press, ejected it from his mind ; for, when he had no pecuniary interest, he had no further solicitude.
Página 205 - There was therefore before the time of Dryden no poetical diction : no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts.
Página 524 - Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 36 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 560 - ... is cold, and knowledge is inert ; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;- the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred that of this poetical...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Lives Volumen1 de The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | A. Miller, 1800 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 23 Nov. 2006 |
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