Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4 |
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Stran 44
Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that preserve the languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation .
Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that preserve the languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation .
Stran 90
At another time , when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of its being in English , Johnson said : “ The language of the country of which a learned man was a native is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ...
At another time , when somebody endeavoured to argue in favour of its being in English , Johnson said : “ The language of the country of which a learned man was a native is not the language fit for his epitaph , which should be in ...
Stran 286
1 Maccaronic verses are verses made out of a mixture of different languages , that is , of one language with the termination of another . ' I suppose we scarcely know of a language in any country where there is any learning , in which ...
1 Maccaronic verses are verses made out of a mixture of different languages , that is , of one language with the termination of another . ' I suppose we scarcely know of a language in any country where there is any learning , in which ...
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