 | 1784 - 524 страници
...whether it was poflible to transfufe fuch beauties into our language : but for Mr. Home's fatisfafiion, and in order to give him a general notion of the ftrain...poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into Engtifh. He accordingly brought him one next day; which oat friend was fo much plcifed with, that h«... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 страници
...language; but for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day ; which our friend was so much pleased with, that... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 546 страници
...whether it was poffible to transfufe fuch beauties into our language ; but, for Mr. Home's fatisfa&ion, and in order to give him a general notion of the ftrain...accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was fo much pleafed with, that he never ceafed feliciting Mr. Macpherfon, fon, till he infenfibly produced... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 536 страници
...into our language ; but, for Mr. Home's fatisfaftion, and in order to give him a general notion of fhe ftrain of. that wild poetry, he would endeavour to...accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was fo much pleafed with, that he never ceafed foliciting Mr. Macpherfon, fon, till he infenfibly produced... | |
 | Thomas Edward Ritchie - 1807 - 962 страници
...whether it was poffible to fransfufe fuch beauties into our language ; but, for Mr. Home's fatisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the ftrain...poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into Englifb. He accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was fo much pleafed with, that he... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 страници
...language ; but for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day; which our friend was so much pleased with, that he... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 страници
...language ; but, for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was so much pleased with, that he... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 644 страници
...language; but, for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was so much pleasetl with, that... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 страници
...language ; but, for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was so much pleased with, that he... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 304 страници
...language; but, for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order to give him a general notion of the strain of that wild poetry, he would endeavour to turn one of them into English. He accordingly brought him one next day, which our friend was so much pleased with, that he... | |
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... asked whether he had ever translated any of them ? Mr. Macpherson replied, that he never had attempted any such thing; and doubted whether it was possible to transfuse such beauties into our language; but for Mr. Home's satisfaction, and in order... 
