The Classical Journal, Volume 26A. J. Valpay., 1822 - Classical philology |
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... Persius . When the coarse metaphor , or the ex- travagant hyperbole debases , or obscures the sense of the original , I have changed , or even omitted it ; and where the idiom of the English language required it , I have thought myself ...
... Persius . When the coarse metaphor , or the ex- travagant hyperbole debases , or obscures the sense of the original , I have changed , or even omitted it ; and where the idiom of the English language required it , I have thought myself ...
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... Persius . The error here ascribed , by implication , to Sir W. Drum- mond , is one into which translators of modern times have been apt to fall , that of rendering a writer whose language is bold , and whose versification is free , in a ...
... Persius . The error here ascribed , by implication , to Sir W. Drum- mond , is one into which translators of modern times have been apt to fall , that of rendering a writer whose language is bold , and whose versification is free , in a ...
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... Persius , and a candid statement of his literary merits and defects . The obscurity so much complained of in his compositions Mr. Gifford attributes , partly to the intricacies of his doctrine , and his adoption of the vicious style of ...
... Persius , and a candid statement of his literary merits and defects . The obscurity so much complained of in his compositions Mr. Gifford attributes , partly to the intricacies of his doctrine , and his adoption of the vicious style of ...
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... effect : and , after a lapse of three - score years , the same complaint is reproduced in stronger language . But the warmth of our author is better founded than that of his predecessor . It is not Translation of Persius . 7 .
... effect : and , after a lapse of three - score years , the same complaint is reproduced in stronger language . But the warmth of our author is better founded than that of his predecessor . It is not Translation of Persius . 7 .
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... Persius speaks in this place ; for of these he probably thought pretty much like his contemporaries ; but of their defects , which the fashion of the day recommended to imitation . A corrupt age is always an affected one . Simplicity is ...
... Persius speaks in this place ; for of these he probably thought pretty much like his contemporaries ; but of their defects , which the fashion of the day recommended to imitation . A corrupt age is always an affected one . Simplicity is ...
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Page 336 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Page 211 - And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out?
Page 387 - And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with them : and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.
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Page 213 - And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was : and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
Page 79 - Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great. THE BARD. A Pindaric Ode. I. i. seize thee, ruthless King ! Confusion on thy banners wait ; Tho' fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.
Page 296 - As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; 3 nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence...
Page 363 - Wise men have said are wearisom ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains, Deep verst in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a spunge; As Children gathering pibles on the shore.
Page 148 - John, Lord Bishop of Bristol, respecting an additional examination of students in the University of Cambridge, and the different plans proposed for that purpose.
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