Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the EneisMeinhold and Sons, 1853 - 586 pages |
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Page viii
... entirely engrossed by his own views as to have no room for those of any one else : one of the worst arguers and least rational men , not to be mad , whom I ever met ; in one word , exactly what one might a priori suppose the editor of ...
... entirely engrossed by his own views as to have no room for those of any one else : one of the worst arguers and least rational men , not to be mad , whom I ever met ; in one word , exactly what one might a priori suppose the editor of ...
Page xii
... entirely original ; all the views put forward ( unless where the contrary is expressly stated ) exclusively my own ; wherever I have at first put forward a view as my own , which I have afterwards discovered to have been previously held ...
... entirely original ; all the views put forward ( unless where the contrary is expressly stated ) exclusively my own ; wherever I have at first put forward a view as my own , which I have afterwards discovered to have been previously held ...
Page xiv
... entirely new and my own invention ) which enabled me to con- vey into English the Virgilian sense , with a certainty and precision , and at the same time with an ease and fluency , wholly unattainable in any other measure or combination ...
... entirely new and my own invention ) which enabled me to con- vey into English the Virgilian sense , with a certainty and precision , and at the same time with an ease and fluency , wholly unattainable in any other measure or combination ...
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... entirely wrong : “ Und es stürzt das gebrochene Wassergebirg ' ein . " " E d'acqua un monte intanto Voss . Venne come dal cielo a cader giu . " CARO . Compare OVID . Metam . XV . 508 : " Cum mare surrexit , cumulusque immanis aquarum In ...
... entirely wrong : “ Und es stürzt das gebrochene Wassergebirg ' ein . " " E d'acqua un monte intanto Voss . Venne come dal cielo a cader giu . " CARO . Compare OVID . Metam . XV . 508 : " Cum mare surrexit , cumulusque immanis aquarum In ...
Page 69
... entirely omitted the idea contained in MINANTUR ( " Duo scopuli eminent ad cœlum . " — RUEUS . " Duo scopuli eminent . " HEYNE ) , an omission which , if I may be allowed to speculate , arose from the similar omission in the ordinary ...
... entirely omitted the idea contained in MINANTUR ( " Duo scopuli eminent ad cœlum . " — RUEUS . " Duo scopuli eminent . " HEYNE ) , an omission which , if I may be allowed to speculate , arose from the similar omission in the ordinary ...
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