Lyrics and Bucolics: The Eclogues of Virgil, a Selection from the Odes of Horace, and The Legend of the Sibyll

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Hotten, 1868 - 140 pagina's
 

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Pagina 140 - Only a small number of copies of this very vulgar, but very curious, book have been printed, for the Collectors of" Street Words
Pagina xii - No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too. They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Pagina 140 - It abounds in interesting and romantic incident, and embodies many graphic pictures of the land we are about to invade. As a handbook for students, travellers, and general readers, it is all that can be desired.
Pagina xii - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line: A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too: They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Pagina 140 - Fellow of the Ethnological Society. With map and eight coloured illustrations. "This book is specially intended for popular reading at the present time.'* " Mr. Hotten has published a work which presents the best view of the country yet made public. It will undoubtedly supply a want greatly felt." — Morning Pott. " Very complete and well digested. A cyclopsedia of information concerning the country." — Publisher'* Circular. "The author is certainly entitled to considerable kudot for the manner...

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