 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 σελίδες
...as the French translator, that, taking all tin" materials of this divine author, [ have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had heen horn in England, and in this present age. I acknowledge, with S£grais, that I have not succeeded... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 σελίδες
...as the Kronen translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken, if he had heen horn in England, and in this present age. I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 σελίδες
...substance, but how he says it. " I have endeavoured," says Pryden, in the Preface to his great work, " to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken if he had been born in England, HOMERIC DISSERTATIONS. and in this present age."1 His problem would have been more correctly stnted... | |
 | Homerus - 1866 - 506 σελίδες
...substance, but how he says it. " I have endeavoured," says Dryden, in the Preface to his great work, "to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken if he had been born in England, HOMERIC DISSF.RTATIONS. and in this present age."1 His problem would have been more correctly stated... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 σελίδες
...20 the French translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...age. I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not 25 'succeeded in this attempt according to my desire: yet 'I shall not be wholly without praise, if... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1901 - 520 σελίδες
...have subscribed Dryden's declaration in regard to his version of the .ZExEiD : " I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...had been born in England, and in this present age." One homely instance is typical of many : " drunk as an Englishman," writes Rabelais, and Urquhart,... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 444 σελίδες
...reason as the French translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavor'd to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow'd to have copied the clearness, the purity, the easiness, and the magnificence of his style.... | |
 | Virgil - 1909 - 454 σελίδες
...reason as the French translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavor'd to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow'd to have copied the clearness, the purity, the easiness, and the magnificence of his style.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 σελίδες
...reason as the French translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavor'd to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow'd to have copied the clearness, the purity, the easiness, and the magnificence of his style.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 σελίδες
...all the materials of this divine author, I have endeavor'd to make Virgil speak such English as lie would himself have spoken, if he had been born in...be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow'd to have copied the clearness, the purity, the easiness, and the magnificence of his style.... | |
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I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English, as he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in this present age. 
