Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1Edwin Mallard Everett Dryden Press, 1955 - 1000 pages |
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Page xii
... better than they seem in translations . That is why everyone who is not a linguist is sincerely convinced that the poetry of his own tongue is much better than that of any other . It is too much to expect that the proper allowances can ...
... better than they seem in translations . That is why everyone who is not a linguist is sincerely convinced that the poetry of his own tongue is much better than that of any other . It is too much to expect that the proper allowances can ...
Page 359
... better off than he is , -for he knows nothing , and thinks that he knows ; I neither know nor think that I know . In this latter particular , then , I seem to have slightly the advantage of him . Then I went to another who had still ...
... better off than he is , -for he knows nothing , and thinks that he knows ; I neither know nor think that I know . In this latter particular , then , I seem to have slightly the advantage of him . Then I went to another who had still ...
Page 914
... better bred and more accomplished , than he really will , by such car- riage , discover himself to be . Let him be instructed not to engage in discourse or dispute but with a champion worthy of him , and , even there , not to make use ...
... better bred and more accomplished , than he really will , by such car- riage , discover himself to be . Let him be instructed not to engage in discourse or dispute but with a champion worthy of him , and , even there , not to make use ...
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