The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1National ilustrated library, 1851 |
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Page 68
... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ; for the language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and as it were ...
... believe in every other translation , there is in the work itself no vestige of the translator's own style ; for the language of translation being adapted to the thoughts of another person , insensibly follows their cast , and as it were ...
Page 110
... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . " You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
... believe I am going to write a long letter , and have therefore taken a whole sheet of paper . The first thing to be written about is our historical design . " You mentioned the proposal of printing in numbers , as an alteration in the ...
Page 122
... believe that this was a malignant lie , invented by a mother to prevent her own child from receiving the bounty of his father , which was accordingly the consequence , if the person whose life Johnson wrote , was her son ; or shall we ...
... believe that this was a malignant lie , invented by a mother to prevent her own child from receiving the bounty of his father , which was accordingly the consequence , if the person whose life Johnson wrote , was her son ; or shall we ...
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