| Henry Hallam - 1880 - 422 páginas
...struggling with wants, oppressed by sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all 1 write ; and my judges, if they are not very equitable,...the lying character which has been given them of my morals."1 4i. Dryden will hardlj be charged with abandoning too hastily our national credit, when he... | |
| 1880 - 400 páginas
...the vigor of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years j struggling with wants, oppressed with sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to bo misconstrued in all I Write"— then we exclaim that here at last we have the true English prose,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 páginas
...almost any man now living.' Later: 'What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at case, I have undertaken to translate in my declining years;...character which has been given them of my morals.' His dedications are nauseous panegyrics. In one, he says to the Duchess of Monmouth: •To receive... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...than almost any man now living.' Later: 'What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining...character which has been given them of my morals.' He would have been less open to attack, had he been less servile to the false taste and corrupt morals... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 626 páginas
...But when we find Dryden telling us : ' What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining...genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write,' — then we exclaim that here at last we have the true English prose, a prose such as we would all... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 páginas
...struggling with wants, oppressed wilh sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all 1 write ; and my judges, if they are not very equitable,...the lying character which has been given them of my morals.'1 Although well meant for his own part, he knew that his conduct had not always been worthy,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 páginas
...than almost any man now living.' Later: 'What Virgil wrote in the rigour of his age, in plenty and at NJtm a" R jh奮H w z~ g ?(NJ 'l7" bonnet rev'rcntly is laid aside, His Ivan batt wilh sickness, curbed in my genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write; and my judges if they... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 páginas
...But when we find Dryden telling us : ' What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining...genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write,' — then we exclaim that here at last we have the true English prose, a prose such as we would all... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 páginas
...But when we find Dryden telling us : ' What Virgil wrote in the vigour of his age, in plenty and at ease, I have undertaken to translate in my declining...genius, liable to be misconstrued in all I write,' — then we exclaim that here at last we have the true English prose, a prose such as we would all... | |
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