 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...  The Quarterly review - Page 21826Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 pages
...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. " The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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. " The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator ile and ingenuous elephant T' his own and only female is gallan The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication j. and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...not to be represVeu VI. Dd sed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunt ed. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seem sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. \ The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pages
...ostentation is not to be repressed ; nor sententious affectation to have its point blunted. A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. The reasonableness of these rules seems sufficient for their vindication ; and the effects produced... | |
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