The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including the Tour to the HebridesHenry Holt & Company, 1882 - 689 pàgines |
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... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favorable reception . " If it be answered , that the history is already in English , it must be re membered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
... Italian , together with Le Courayer's Notes from the French , could not fail of a favorable reception . " If it be answered , that the history is already in English , it must be re membered , that there was the same objection against Le ...
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... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labor which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other con- tributors , like ...
... Italian , I do not know ; but he was so well skilled in them , as to be sufficiently qualified for a translator . That part of his labor which consisted in emendation and improvement of the productions of other con- tributors , like ...
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... Italy he met with it in Devonshire , knowing nothing of its author , and began to read it , while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney- piece . It seized his attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down ...
... Italy he met with it in Devonshire , knowing nothing of its author , and began to read it , while he was standing with his arm leaning against a chimney- piece . It seized his attention so strongly , that , not being able to lay down ...
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... Italians have literally , but ludicrously , translated by Il Vagabondo , and which has been lately assumed as the denomi- nation of a vehicle of licentious tales , " The Rambler's Magazine . " He gave Sir Joshua Reynolds the following ...
... Italians have literally , but ludicrously , translated by Il Vagabondo , and which has been lately assumed as the denomi- nation of a vehicle of licentious tales , " The Rambler's Magazine . " He gave Sir Joshua Reynolds the following ...
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... Italian translation on the op- posite page , which it is supposed was the work of Signor Baretti , an Italian of considerable literature , who having come to England a few years before , had been employed in the capacity both of a ...
... Italian translation on the op- posite page , which it is supposed was the work of Signor Baretti , an Italian of considerable literature , who having come to England a few years before , had been employed in the capacity both of a ...
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