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" The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. "
The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 321
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. The peculiarity of Jj^vg&al is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory...
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The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory...
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Works, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...that no man was unwilling to serve the Aluses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaycty and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...that no man was in willing to serve the Muses under 'iim. The general character of this translaion will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of he original. The peculiarity of Juvenal .aa mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of mini !•<! sentences,...
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Decimus Junius Juvenalis - 1852 - 596 pages
...Johnson's description of it is somewhat more favourable : " The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original." Is this correct ? Dryden frequently degrades the author into a jester; but i He evidently alludes to...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 356 pages
...such that no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit but to want the dignity of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory...
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The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ...

Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pages
...that) no man was unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity ; of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences, and declamatory...
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