 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1797 - 446 sider
...the whole, I am inclined to think, that the verfion of Motteux is by far the beft we have yet feen of the Romance of Cervantes ; and that if corrected in its licentious abbreviations and enlargements, and in fome other particulars which I have noticed in the courfe of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 sider
...Don Quixote. — On the whole," he concludes, " I am inclined to think, that the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance of Cervantes*." Our author engaged, likewise, in the still more difficult task of translating Rabelais, a writer whose... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 sider
...Don Quixote. — Ou the whole," he concludes, " I am inclined to think, that the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance of Cervantes *." Our author engaged, likewise, in the still more difficult task of translating Rabelais, a writer... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 sider
...adorast and to many of the other poems. ON the whole, I am inclined to think, that the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the Romance...Cervantes ; and that if corrected in its licentious abbreviations and enlargements, and in some other particulars which I have noticed in the course of... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 748 sider
...opinion, superior to those of his rival. " On the whole, I am inclined to think, the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance...corrected in its licentious observations and enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in the course of this comparison, we should have... | |
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 sider
...superior to those of his rival. " On the whole, I am inclined to think, the version of Motteux is bv far the best we have yet seen of the romance of Cervantes,...corrected in its licentious observations and enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in the course of this comparison, we should have... | |
 | William Davis - 1821 - 776 sider
...abbreviations and enlargements, and in some other particulars noticed in the coarse of this comparison, we should have nothing to desire superior to it in the way of translation." Admirable Voyaye and Travell of William Bush, Gentleman, who with his own hands, without any other... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 sider
...opinion, superior to those of his rival. " On the whole, I am inclined to think, the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance...corrected in its licentious observations and enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in the course of this comparison, we should have... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 sider
...enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in the course of this comparison, we should have nothing to desire superior to it in the way of translation. » After .the publication of Don Quixote, Smollett paid a visit to his native country, in order to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 sider
...opinion, superior to those of his rival. " On the whole, 1 am inclined to think, the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance...corrected in its licentious observations and enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in the course of this comparison, we should have... | |
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On the whole, I am inclined to think, the version of Motteux is by far the best we have yet seen of the romance of Cervantes, and that, if corrected in its licentious observations and enlargements, and in some other particulars, which I have noticed in... 
