The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1810 - Books |
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... translator equal in his kind to the translator whom Homer obtained in Pope , or Lucan in Rowe . We mean Gilbert West ; whose genius , if the genius of any man could have done it , would have rendered Pindar a ... Translation of Pindar . 35.
... translator equal in his kind to the translator whom Homer obtained in Pope , or Lucan in Rowe . We mean Gilbert West ; whose genius , if the genius of any man could have done it , would have rendered Pindar a ... Translation of Pindar . 35.
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... translation prove the means of bringing into more general notice the great Original . ' We wish that we could accompany the concluding sentence with any words of good omen : but we really cannot . The ori- ginal which the translator has ...
... translation prove the means of bringing into more general notice the great Original . ' We wish that we could accompany the concluding sentence with any words of good omen : but we really cannot . The ori- ginal which the translator has ...
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... translation . I have not the presumption to offer instruction to the learned , but I wish to excite those , who admire inferior classical authors , to be- stow more of their attention upon this great original . My endeavour has been to ...
... translation . I have not the presumption to offer instruction to the learned , but I wish to excite those , who admire inferior classical authors , to be- stow more of their attention upon this great original . My endeavour has been to ...
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