The Quarterly review, Volume 34Murray, 1826 |
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... give some account of these at- tempts , but in discussing them , we shall entirely abstain from all comments on the originals , ( which would lead us into much too wide a field , ) except in so far as any mention of them is incidental ...
... give some account of these at- tempts , but in discussing them , we shall entirely abstain from all comments on the originals , ( which would lead us into much too wide a field , ) except in so far as any mention of them is incidental ...
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... give so exact an idea of the original as it might . Dante marches over his ground with a sort of spectral stalk ; for each triplet is a separate pace ; Mr. Carey moves vigorously and gravely , but he does not ( as we would have him ) ...
... give so exact an idea of the original as it might . Dante marches over his ground with a sort of spectral stalk ; for each triplet is a separate pace ; Mr. Carey moves vigorously and gravely , but he does not ( as we would have him ) ...
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... give it the majestic close which the Italian stanza possesses in the winding up of its doubly - rhymed couplet ; and , indeed , we have seen , in manuscript , the translation of a canto of Ariosto , by an accomplished statesman ...
... give it the majestic close which the Italian stanza possesses in the winding up of its doubly - rhymed couplet ; and , indeed , we have seen , in manuscript , the translation of a canto of Ariosto , by an accomplished statesman ...
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... give citizenship to tantaliz- zare , in Italian , would probably succeed ; because the word is wanted ; because Latin fable , from which it is derived , is popu- larly known in Italy ; because the Italian language delights in forming ...
... give citizenship to tantaliz- zare , in Italian , would probably succeed ; because the word is wanted ; because Latin fable , from which it is derived , is popu- larly known in Italy ; because the Italian language delights in forming ...
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... give the three first of some dedicatory stanzas , written in Tasso's own metre , and addressed to the Duchess of Bedford , which VOL . XXXIV . NO . LXVII . B which will show how successful Mr. Wiffen is in the Mr. Wiffen's Translation ...
... give the three first of some dedicatory stanzas , written in Tasso's own metre , and addressed to the Duchess of Bedford , which VOL . XXXIV . NO . LXVII . B which will show how successful Mr. Wiffen is in the Mr. Wiffen's Translation ...
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Page 210 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 516 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 575 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Page 2 - He is to exhibit his author's thoughts in such a dress of diction as the author would have given them, had his language been English : rugged magnificence is not to be softened : hyperbolical ostentation is not to be repressed, nor sententious affectation to have its points blunted. A translator is to be like his author : it is not his business to excel him.
Page 193 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found ; But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? He finds us all brick, and he leaves us all plaster.
Page 227 - But fill'd, in elder time, the historic page. There, Shakespeare's self, with every garland crown'd, Flew to those fairy climes his fancy sheen, In musing hour, his wayward Sisters found, And with their terrors drest the magic scene. From them he sung, when, 'mid his bold design, Before the Scot, afflicted, and aghast ! The shadowy kings of Banquo's fated line Through the dark cave in gleamy pageant pass'd.
Page 608 - The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask...
Page 368 - I am sorry for H. Fielding's death, not only as I shall read no more of his writings, but I believe he lost more than others, as no man enjoyed life more than he did, though few had less reason to do so, the highest of his preferment being raking in the lowest sinks of vice and misery.
Page 171 - It may, perhaps, be worth while to remark, that, if we except the poets, a few orators, and a few historians, the far greater part of the other eminent men of letters, both of Greece and Rome, appear to have been either public or private teachers ; generally either of philosophy or of rhetoric.
Page 216 - The Drama's laws, the Drama's patrons give; For those who live to please, must please to live.