The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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... translation of Crousaz's Examen of Pope's Essay on Man , and gave advice as one anxious for its success , I was long ago convinced by a perusal of the Pre- face , that this translation was erroneously ascribed to him ; and I have found ...
... translation of Crousaz's Examen of Pope's Essay on Man , and gave advice as one anxious for its success , I was long ago convinced by a perusal of the Pre- face , that this translation was erroneously ascribed to him ; and I have found ...
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... TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL . PASTORAL I. Melibaus . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; While wretched we about the world must roam , And leave our pleasing fields and native home ...
... TRANSLATION OF VIRGIL . PASTORAL I. Melibaus . Now , Tityrus , you , supine and careless laid , Play on your pipe beneath this beechen shade ; While wretched we about the world must roam , And leave our pleasing fields and native home ...
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... translator had been guilty of an imposition , the whole poems were impositions . Dr. M'Queen brought him , in my opinion ... translation ; and he even pro- cured a person who recited some lines himself . Had Dr. Johnson's time permitted ...
... translator had been guilty of an imposition , the whole poems were impositions . Dr. M'Queen brought him , in my opinion ... translation ; and he even pro- cured a person who recited some lines himself . Had Dr. Johnson's time permitted ...
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