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... spirit I am walking about in 1828 , let us say ; —in a blue dress - coat and brass - buttons , a sweet - figured silk waistcoat ( which I button round a slim waist with perfect ease ) , looking at beautiful things with gigot sleeves and ...
... spirit I am walking about in 1828 , let us say ; —in a blue dress - coat and brass - buttons , a sweet - figured silk waistcoat ( which I button round a slim waist with perfect ease ) , looking at beautiful things with gigot sleeves and ...
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... spirit here ? And the difference is , that the English lines have the distinctive spirit of high poetry , and the French lines have not . Here we have been seeking to attend chiefly to the contents and spirit of the verses chosen . Let ...
... spirit here ? And the difference is , that the English lines have the distinctive spirit of high poetry , and the French lines have not . Here we have been seeking to attend chiefly to the contents and spirit of the verses chosen . Let ...
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... Spirit of the Age ( 57 ) . Winterslow ( 25 ) . HOLMES ( OLIVER WENDELL ) . The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table ( 61 ) . The Poet at the Breakfast - Table ( 95 ) . The Pro- fessor at the Breakfast - Table ( 89 ) . HORNE ( R. H. ) . A ...
... Spirit of the Age ( 57 ) . Winterslow ( 25 ) . HOLMES ( OLIVER WENDELL ) . The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table ( 61 ) . The Poet at the Breakfast - Table ( 95 ) . The Pro- fessor at the Breakfast - Table ( 89 ) . HORNE ( R. H. ) . A ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |