Robert Burns in Other Tongues: A Critical Review of the Translations of the Songs & Poems of Robert BurnsJ. MacLehose and Sons, 1896 - 560 страница |
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... languages , and gratifying to admirers of the poet , were the various translations , so far as they are known , dealt with in one volume , and thus brought more directly into notice . I have taken generally the same songs and poems ...
... languages , and gratifying to admirers of the poet , were the various translations , so far as they are known , dealt with in one volume , and thus brought more directly into notice . I have taken generally the same songs and poems ...
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... languages which appear here , sufficiently well to enable me to criticize these translations as I have done ; indeed some of them I do not know at all . In such cases I had each retranslated literally into a language which I did ...
... languages which appear here , sufficiently well to enable me to criticize these translations as I have done ; indeed some of them I do not know at all . In such cases I had each retranslated literally into a language which I did ...
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... languages . In learning such myself I always com- mitted to memory a good deal of prose and poetry in order to impress the spirit and idiom of the language on my mind . A piece from Burns well translated will be a great aid to the ...
... languages . In learning such myself I always com- mitted to memory a good deal of prose and poetry in order to impress the spirit and idiom of the language on my mind . A piece from Burns well translated will be a great aid to the ...
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... language to another without losing its sweet- ness and euphony . " This is undoubtedly true to a large extent , but , like many of the sayings of great thinkers , it is not true absolutely . There are , of course , works which are the ...
... language to another without losing its sweet- ness and euphony . " This is undoubtedly true to a large extent , but , like many of the sayings of great thinkers , it is not true absolutely . There are , of course , works which are the ...
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... languages of other nations , so that every one may enjoy in his own tongue the privilege which Emerson describes . It has struck me during this study that there are two classes of translation - the strictly accurate and the artistic ...
... languages of other nations , so that every one may enjoy in his own tongue the privilege which Emerson describes . It has struck me during this study that there are two classes of translation - the strictly accurate and the artistic ...
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