 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...rhyme before him, it may be, perhaps, maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...him, it may be perhaps maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He shewed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty. What...reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. THE invocation before the Georgicks is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's i liberty, What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus,...reliquit." He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgicks is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator'sliberty. What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be...reliquit.* He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the Georgics is here inserted from Mr. Melbourne's ver-iou, that, according to his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, lateriliam f popery. Swift, who serins to have disliked the bishop with something mor invocation before the " Georgics " is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that according to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, lateriliam invmit, marmoream reliquit. He found it brick, and he left it marble. The invocation before the "Georgics" is here inserted from Mr. Milbourne's version, that according to his... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pages
...of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we are taught sapere et fari, to think naturally and express forcibly. He taught...which appears to have been very inaccurately chosen, VLB their writings have nothing of metaphysics but its occasional obscurity, and are rather distinguished... | |
 | John Dryden - 1850 - 318 pages
...rhyme before him, it may perhaps be maintained that he was the first who joined argument with poetry. He showed us the true bounds of a translator's liberty....reliquit;' 'He found it brick,* and he left it marble.' " Of Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope, in his Life of the latter poet, it may be said that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...and force of English prose that we may apply to him what was said of Augustus with regard to Rome : lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit, he found it brick and he left it marble. Mr.. Hallam's opinion differs somewhat from this, it is as follows : "The style of Bacon has an idiosyncracy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...English prose, that we may apply to him what was said of Augustus with regard to Rome : lateritium invenit, marmoream reliquit ; he found it brick, and he left it marble. Mr. Hallam's opinion differs somewhat from this, it is as follows : — " The style of Bacon has an... | |
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What was said of Rome, adorned by Augustus, may be applied by an easy metaphor to English poetry embellished by Dryden, " lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit." He found it brick and he left it marble. 
