Dialogues of Lucian: From the Greek, 第 1 巻W. Flexney, 1774 - 340 ページ |
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againſt almoſt amongſt ANACHARSIS Athenian becauſe befides beſt body buſineſs cauſe CHARON CLOTH CLOTHO COCK CYNIC CYNIC K CYNISCUS defire DEMEA dream earth eſcape Euphorbus exerciſes faid fame feaſt feem feen fellow ferved fhall fhew fhould fince firſt fome fomething foon fpade fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure gods gold greateſt hear heaven himſelf Homer honour houſe Jupiter juſt king labour laft laſt laugh look Lucian LYCIN mafter manner Medes MEGA PENTHE MENIPPUS MERCURY MICYLLUS moft Momus moſt muft muſt myſelf never obferve obolus occafion perfons philofopher pleaſed pleaſure PLUTUS poffible praiſes pray prefent purpoſe Pythagoras queſtion rafcal raiſed reaſon reft RHADAMANTHUS rich ſay Scythian ſee ſhall SOLON ſpeak ſtrength ſuch tell thagoras thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thouſand Timon tranflation underſtand uſe wiſh wonder yourſelf ΤΙΜ
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270 ページ - A Bishop here said that book was full of improbable lies, and for his part, he hardly believed a word of it; and so much for Gulliver.
i ページ - That fire of genius can be brought To kindle only where it ought, With Virtue nobly can conform. Nor, wild with power, lmpede a worm; Of late a fair example shone, The life and theme of LYTTELTON.
x ページ - ... republication, that I changed my mind. - • "He cannot tell what criticks thought it, He only knows, that people bought it.
viii ページ - But no man will wi£h to tranflate the [d] whok of Lucian, who thinks the world already bad enough, and, though he cannot make it better, does not defire to make it worfe.
vi ページ - Hickes appears, by the language, to have been made about the beginning of the lait century.
viii ページ - D'Ablancourt's French. The pieces in this volume do not follow one another in the fame order as in the original.
v ページ - But where are fuch tranflators to be found ? After Dryden and a few others, what man of genius will put on painful...
x ページ - I return thanks to the voluntary Subscribers. It was not my fault, that a gentleman's name was printed without his consent, nor that he does not
viii ページ - J begun tranflating with an intention of going through the whole of Lucian's works, I might probably have obfcrved the common order ; though with no other reafon than the ufage of Editors.
ix ページ - ... be blown in my way, I will gather it up as clean as I can, and greedily devour it, without afking [e] queftions. I hope no enquiry will be made into the motives of this undertaking, of which I co» fefs rnyfelf unable to give any fatisfaftory account.