The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... translator on a large scale ; but one of his efforts in this latter difficult and too often thankless business has ... translation has gone the furthest and come the nearest . It is no slight achievement . Two names famous in their way ...
... translator on a large scale ; but one of his efforts in this latter difficult and too often thankless business has ... translation has gone the furthest and come the nearest . It is no slight achievement . Two names famous in their way ...
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... translator of Virgil and Persius . His translation of Horace into English verse was regarded by Munro as ' on the whole perhaps the best and most successful translation of a Classic that exists in the English language . ' Edwin Palmer ...
... translator of Virgil and Persius . His translation of Horace into English verse was regarded by Munro as ' on the whole perhaps the best and most successful translation of a Classic that exists in the English language . ' Edwin Palmer ...
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... translator of The Arabian Nights ; by William Wright , professor of Arabic in Cambridge from 1870 to 1889 , author ... translated the Bible with the coopera- tion of William Milne ; Walter Henry Medhurst , translator of the Bible , and ...
... translator of The Arabian Nights ; by William Wright , professor of Arabic in Cambridge from 1870 to 1889 , author ... translated the Bible with the coopera- tion of William Milne ; Walter Henry Medhurst , translator of the Bible , and ...
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