The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... Italian proverb which terms translators tradittori , or traitors . In both kinds , as Wakefield observes of Hobbes's Homer , their versions bore the same resemblance to the originals as a dead car- case bears to a vigorous living body ...
... Italian proverb which terms translators tradittori , or traitors . In both kinds , as Wakefield observes of Hobbes's Homer , their versions bore the same resemblance to the originals as a dead car- case bears to a vigorous living body ...
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... Italy , and the mu- nicipal towns be denied their share ? If their pretensions be admitted . ' & c . We shall now mention promiscuously a few passages in which the translator has failed of giving the precise mean- ing of his original ...
... Italy , and the mu- nicipal towns be denied their share ? If their pretensions be admitted . ' & c . We shall now mention promiscuously a few passages in which the translator has failed of giving the precise mean- ing of his original ...
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... Italian , French , German , Danish , and Icelandic tongues . In days of old he could have dis- coursed with the natives who dwelt on the banks of the Ce- phisus or the Tiber ; in modern days he might be the citizen of almost any country ...
... Italian , French , German , Danish , and Icelandic tongues . In days of old he could have dis- coursed with the natives who dwelt on the banks of the Ce- phisus or the Tiber ; in modern days he might be the citizen of almost any country ...
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... the vowels aand i is frequent ; and some words promise from their component letters a gound not unlike the Italian . In comparing the space oc- cupied by a literal prose translation with its original in_p 40 Herbert's Miscellaneous Poetry ,
... the vowels aand i is frequent ; and some words promise from their component letters a gound not unlike the Italian . In comparing the space oc- cupied by a literal prose translation with its original in_p 40 Herbert's Miscellaneous Poetry ,
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... Italy , and Germany . In the Epithalamium from the Italian of Parini , the double ending which occurs twice in every stanza , certainly without rhyme , and without a shadow of reason , is a wanton defiance of harmony : In stanza v . To ...
... Italy , and Germany . In the Epithalamium from the Italian of Parini , the double ending which occurs twice in every stanza , certainly without rhyme , and without a shadow of reason , is a wanton defiance of harmony : In stanza v . To ...
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