The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... language is uniformly stiff and formal , and occasionally very bombastical . Agandecca replies to a question from her mother concerning . her health in the following words : " Thou hast no child ! I am no more ! this form Consists of ...
... language is uniformly stiff and formal , and occasionally very bombastical . Agandecca replies to a question from her mother concerning . her health in the following words : " Thou hast no child ! I am no more ! this form Consists of ...
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... and obscure . A poet of vivid imagination , of great powers of abstraction , and pos- sessed of a copious command of fairy language , like the mild and plaintive Collins , may , if he chuses Richardson's Poems , & c 11.
... and obscure . A poet of vivid imagination , of great powers of abstraction , and pos- sessed of a copious command of fairy language , like the mild and plaintive Collins , may , if he chuses Richardson's Poems , & c 11.
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... language into the words of another , never dreaming of the propriety of tranfusing idioms . In their poetical translations also they fol- lowed the same law , exemplifying the old Italian proverb which terms translators tradittori , or ...
... language into the words of another , never dreaming of the propriety of tranfusing idioms . In their poetical translations also they fol- lowed the same law , exemplifying the old Italian proverb which terms translators tradittori , or ...
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... language as a plain fact becomes heightened in his translator's hands into language unseasonably strong and metaphorical . In proof of our as- sertions take an example or two . 6 When Metellus tampers with Bomilcar , and urges him to ...
... language as a plain fact becomes heightened in his translator's hands into language unseasonably strong and metaphorical . In proof of our as- sertions take an example or two . 6 When Metellus tampers with Bomilcar , and urges him to ...
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... language of adrill - serjeant . Had uncle Toby and corporal Trim laid their heads together to translate Sallust , they could not have exceeded Dr. S. in technical minuteness on subjects of tactics . It is true we are metamorphosed into ...
... language of adrill - serjeant . Had uncle Toby and corporal Trim laid their heads together to translate Sallust , they could not have exceeded Dr. S. in technical minuteness on subjects of tactics . It is true we are metamorphosed into ...
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