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... fellow ; of which he has pre- served some translations from Homer , Virgil , Horace , & c . Unfortunately the communica- * Boswell's Johnson , Vol . i , p . 34 . 1 tions of Mr Wentworth are not distinguished from those DR JOHNSON . 21.
... fellow ; of which he has pre- served some translations from Homer , Virgil , Horace , & c . Unfortunately the communica- * Boswell's Johnson , Vol . i , p . 34 . 1 tions of Mr Wentworth are not distinguished from those DR JOHNSON . 21.
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... translation of the first Eclogue of Virgil is not so harmonious as that from the sixth book of Homer ; and both are inferior in this respect to those which he has made of the Odes of Horace . Indeed , in the style and manner of ...
... translation of the first Eclogue of Virgil is not so harmonious as that from the sixth book of Homer ; and both are inferior in this respect to those which he has made of the Odes of Horace . Indeed , in the style and manner of ...
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... translate Pope's Messiah into Latin hexameter verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it with un- common rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he obtained great applause for it , which ever after kept him high in the ...
... translate Pope's Messiah into Latin hexameter verse , as a Christmas exercise . He performed it with un- common rapidity , and in so masterly a manner , that he obtained great applause for it , which ever after kept him high in the ...
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... translated and abridged , from the French of the Abbé le Grand , a Voyage to Abyssinia , written originally by Jerome Lobo , a Portuguese Jesuit , employed in the East India mission at Goa . To Lobo's Voyage , which contains a narrative ...
... translated and abridged , from the French of the Abbé le Grand , a Voyage to Abyssinia , written originally by Jerome Lobo , a Portuguese Jesuit , employed in the East India mission at Goa . To Lobo's Voyage , which contains a narrative ...
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... translator's name * . It is remarkable as the first prose work of Johnson , and as it contains a relation of the discovery of the fountains of the Nile , a century and a half before our adventurous countryman ... translation 42 THE LIFE OF.
... translator's name * . It is remarkable as the first prose work of Johnson , and as it contains a relation of the discovery of the fountains of the Nile , a century and a half before our adventurous countryman ... translation 42 THE LIFE OF.
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