 | Virgil - 1909 - 492 σελίδες
...reason as the French translator, that, taking all the materials of this divine author,'! have endeavor'd to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...if he had been born in England, and in this present aga. I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this attempt according to my desire;... | |
 | 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 have spoken, if he had been born iu England, and in this present age. I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this... | |
 | George Kitchin - 1913 - 492 σελίδες
...they too often attempted to do so by sheer coarseness of phrase. ' I have endeavoured ', said Dryden, 'to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...if he had been born in England, and in this present aye ', a boast he repeated in his Epistle to Dorset (1693) On the Origin and Progress of Satire1. But... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1919 - 278 σελίδες
...paraphrase: some things too I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own. ... I have endeavored to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...had been born in England, and in this present age." The critical dedications and prefaces to the various portions of the translation are important not... | |
 | Lauchlan MacLean Watt - 1920 - 274 σελίδες
...Shaketpeart, ii. 291. r connection Dryden himself says, regarding his own translation, " I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...have spoken, if he had been born in England, and in the present age." * And this is, so far, in line with Douglas's declared principle, which, however,... | |
 | 1921 - 324 σελίδες
...Theory of translation. phrase and paraphrase. He «endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English äs he would himself have spoken, if he had been born in England and in this present age"25). He refused to translate mollis amaracus as »sweet-marjoram" because of the »mean idea" of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 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... | |
 | Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 σελίδες
...paraphrase: some things too I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own. ... I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...had been born in England, and in this present age. It will be seen that this is in complete accord with Denham's view of translation, and though both... | |
 | John Max Patrick, Alan Roper - 1973 - 100 σελίδες
...years later Dryden prefaced his paraphrastic translation of the Aeneid by saying he had "endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...been born in England, and in this present age."*" Here's Virgil speaking the English of 1697. Aeneas, descending deeper into the underworld of Book VI,... | |
 | John Max Patrick, Alan Roper - 1973 - 98 σελίδες
...years later Dryden prefaced his paraphrastic translation of the Aeneid by saying he had "endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself...if he had been born in England, and in this present age."20 Here's Virgil speaking the English of 1697. Aeneas, descending deeper into the underworld of... | |
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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. 
