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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ... - Page 241
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 13

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant than he was before in 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. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the customs...
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The Classical Museum, Volume 6

Leonhard Schmitz - 1849 - 510 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in English : and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had he written to this age. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the...
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1852 - 610 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in 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. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the customs...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and ...

John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...made him more soundirigTand more elegant, than he was before in English ; and have endeavoured to make 84 /j f^\b cq^e S ลง;N5"O E m o / E [ , q^ and had written to this age. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him, express the customs...
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius: Literally Translated ...

Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1876 - 588 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in English: and have endeavored to make him speak that kind of English, which he would have spoken had he lived in England, and had written to this age. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the customs...
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Essays of John Dryden

John Dryden - 1882 - 320 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in 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. If sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the customs...
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The Works of John Dryden: Illustrated, with Notes, Historical ..., Volume 13

John Dryden - 1887 - 420 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in 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. ~lf sometimes any of us (and it is but seldom) make him express the customs...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden

John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in English; and ha vr endeavor'd to make him speak that kind of English which he would have spoken had he liv'd in England, and had written to this age. If sometimes any of us (and 't is but seldom) make him...
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Essays of John Dryden, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...made him more sounding, and more elegant, than he was before in English ; and have endeavoured to make him speak that kind of English, which he would have spoken had he lived in England, 35 3040-2 I n4 The Original and Progress of Satire and had written to this age. If sometimes any of...
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Candide: Or Optimism

Francois Voltaire - 1950 - 148 pages
...translator should be able to say, as Dryden said of his version of Juvenal, 'I 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.' There is one more point to make. Candide has lost little of its general...
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