 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1860 - 298 pages
...8s. 6d. LAHGE PAPER. Freeling. Presentation copy, 2f. 10s. '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.' Dr, Johnson. — 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1398, 8s.— 1702. Willett, 1397, 3s.- 1711, 8vo. Roxburghe, 2706,... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1860 - 298 pages
...6d. LARGE PAPER. Freeling. Presentation copy, 2/. 10s. ' 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.' Dr. Johnson.— 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1398, 8s.— 1702. Willett, 1397, 3s.— 1711, 8vo. Roxburghe, 2706,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 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... | |
 | Juvenal, Sulpicia - 1876 - 588 pages
...Johnson's description of it is somewhat more favorable : " 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 1 He evidently alludes to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1890 - 642 pages
...Presentation copy, SI. 10s. 'The general character of this translation will be given, when it is eaid to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original.' Dr. Johnson. — 1697, 8vo. Roscoe, 1898, 8s— 1702. Willett, 1397, Sa.- 1711, 8vo. Roxhurghe, 1706,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 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 - 1899 - 216 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 - 1913 - 220 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 10 of the original. The peculiarity of Juvenal is a mixture of gaiety and stateliness, of pointed sentences... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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 general character of this translation will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit, but to want the dignity, of the original. 
