The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volum 6Gabriel Wells, 1922 |
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... ENGLISH COFFEE - HOUSE , ROME . " DEAR SIR , -To have suffered one of my best and dearest friends to pass almost two years in foreign countries without a letter , has a very shameful appearance of inattention . But the truth is , that ...
... ENGLISH COFFEE - HOUSE , ROME . " DEAR SIR , -To have suffered one of my best and dearest friends to pass almost two years in foreign countries without a letter , has a very shameful appearance of inattention . But the truth is , that ...
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... English in it . " JOHNSON . “ It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once , when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
... English in it . " JOHNSON . “ It may have been radically Teutonick ; but English and High Dutch have no similarity to the eye , though radically the same . Once , when looking into Low Dutch , I found , in a whole page , only one word ...
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... English poem ; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation . Trans- lations are , in general , for people who cannot read the original . " I mentioned the vulgar say- ing , that Pope's Homer was not a good represen- tation of ...
... English poem ; that is the way to judge of the merit of a translation . Trans- lations are , in general , for people who cannot read the original . " I mentioned the vulgar say- ing , that Pope's Homer was not a good represen- tation of ...
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