| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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