 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...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 Juvenal has few moments of levity.... | |
 | Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1803 - 354 pages
...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? Dry den frequently degrades the author into a jester ; but Juvenal has few moments of levity.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...unwilling to serve the Muses under him. The genei al 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 statcliness, of pointed sentences and declamatory... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 582 pages
...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,...the practice of Smithfield and Newmarket ! Indeed, Drydcn himself, though confessedly aware of its impropriety, is not altogether free from " innovation... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...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,...Juvenal illustrates his argument by the practice of Smithrk'Id and Newmarket ! Indeed, Drydcu himself, though confessedly aware of its impropriety, is... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 572 pages
...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,...to the versions of the second and eighth Satires by Tute and Stepney, but principally to the latter, in which Juvenal illustrates his argument by the practice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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 - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 statcliness, of pointed Sentences, aud declamatory... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1811 - 444 pages
...muses under him.*' The " general character of this translation," he adds, " will be given, when it is said to preserve the wit but to want the dignity of the original." It is certainly difficult to decide the general character of this •work, for it is as various as... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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. 
