| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 strani
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " late" ritiam invenit, marmoream veliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 strani
...of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we are taught sapere et fari, to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught us that it was possible to reason in rhyme. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What was said of Rome adorned by Augustus may... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 652 strani
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained, that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden: latentiam invenit, mannoream reliquit. He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 strani
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished fy Bryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. THE... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 strani
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....metaphor, to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 strani
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiatn invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 strani
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 strani
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 strani
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, mar" morcam rcliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 314 strani
...rhyme before him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....metaphor to English poetry, embellished by Dryden, 'lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliqoit.' He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation... | |
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