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... censured , and by an- other my verse . This critic discovers that my translations are superfluous , and that pro- i nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE . 9 pages I am subjected to more censure and ...
... censured , and by an- other my verse . This critic discovers that my translations are superfluous , and that pro- i nounces my numbers to be defective ; while a third PREFACE . 9 pages I am subjected to more censure and ...
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... translations shall plead for themselves , and shall find in me as silent an advocate as they do in the ingenuous Mr. Hayley : but of my prose , which has been thus fearfully ar- raigned , I must be permitted to suggest some- thing in ...
... translations shall plead for themselves , and shall find in me as silent an advocate as they do in the ingenuous Mr. Hayley : but of my prose , which has been thus fearfully ar- raigned , I must be permitted to suggest some- thing in ...
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... : but I must be forgiven if I still lengthen it to touch upon a topic , which stands in connexion with my work . When I offered the translations of some of Milton's Latin 18 PREFACE . syllable respecting him, and have felt more ...
... : but I must be forgiven if I still lengthen it to touch upon a topic , which stands in connexion with my work . When I offered the translations of some of Milton's Latin 18 PREFACE . syllable respecting him, and have felt more ...
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... translator's palm as an object worthy of con- test , I translated merely for the entertain- ment of my readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness ...
... translator's palm as an object worthy of con- test , I translated merely for the entertain- ment of my readers : but I translated also , as I will ingenuously confess , or I would not have translated at all , without a conscious- ness ...
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... translation to be discovered in my volume . That this was the persuasion which he in- tended to communicate to his readers , is ma- nifested by his subsequent conduct : for on occasions which he has improved to display his candour and ...
... translation to be discovered in my volume . That this was the persuasion which he in- tended to communicate to his readers , is ma- nifested by his subsequent conduct : for on occasions which he has improved to display his candour and ...
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