The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of Literature, Science, and Morals; Biographical and Historical Sketches; Critical Remarks on Language; with Occasional Reviews ..., Volume 2W. Hilliard., 1806 |
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... in translation , but a fault in the poetry . It is the use of triplets , which very frequently occur in his version . They vex every reader of taste , and are no small interruption , where , from the nature LITERARY MISCELLANY . 21.
... in translation , but a fault in the poetry . It is the use of triplets , which very frequently occur in his version . They vex every reader of taste , and are no small interruption , where , from the nature LITERARY MISCELLANY . 21.
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... Taste in versification will probably change , perhaps improve . Should this happen , even the laurels of Rowe may wither . " Ut silvæ foliis pronos mutantur in ahnos , " Prima cadunt ; ita verborum vetus interit atas . " ` GOOD MANNERS ...
... Taste in versification will probably change , perhaps improve . Should this happen , even the laurels of Rowe may wither . " Ut silvæ foliis pronos mutantur in ahnos , " Prima cadunt ; ita verborum vetus interit atas . " ` GOOD MANNERS ...
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... be very attractive . It has been contended on the one side , that a taste for the belleslet- tres can be acquired only by a familiar acquaintance with an- cient originals ; while on the other Greek and Roman 44 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... be very attractive . It has been contended on the one side , that a taste for the belleslet- tres can be acquired only by a familiar acquaintance with an- cient originals ; while on the other Greek and Roman 44 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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... taste and refinement in writing must be derived from the originals themselves and not from translations . Ancient authors , like modern foreigners , must speak to us in their own language , or they cannot talk with ease and elegance ...
... taste and refinement in writing must be derived from the originals themselves and not from translations . Ancient authors , like modern foreigners , must speak to us in their own language , or they cannot talk with ease and elegance ...
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... a question of fancy and taste . It is not enough to say , we can get all the infor- mation in the Æneis by reading a translation ; for all the in- formation is fiction . All the merit of the work 46 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
... a question of fancy and taste . It is not enough to say , we can get all the infor- mation in the Æneis by reading a translation ; for all the in- formation is fiction . All the merit of the work 46 LITERARY MISCELLANY .
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Page 89 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 9 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 89 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 241 - English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age.
Page 91 - This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety. Glad then, as miners who have found the ore, They, with mad labour...
Page 76 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 9 - And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
Page 90 - O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor sinks ; And e'en the all-dazzling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks.
Page 8 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 91 - Nature, it seemed, ashamed of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake, Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings. For, as with...