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... translation of Plutarch by Sir Thomas North , which was taken by Shakespeare as the Translators . groundwork of his Roman history plays . John Florio , a Euphuistic writer , produced an excellent translation of Montaigne's Essays in ...
... translation of Plutarch by Sir Thomas North , which was taken by Shakespeare as the Translators . groundwork of his Roman history plays . John Florio , a Euphuistic writer , produced an excellent translation of Montaigne's Essays in ...
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... translation . To the same year ( 1611 ) belongs the translation of the Bible known ever since as the " Authorised Version . " It was the completion of the work begun by Tyndale , various repro- ductions or revisions of which had ...
... translation . To the same year ( 1611 ) belongs the translation of the Bible known ever since as the " Authorised Version . " It was the completion of the work begun by Tyndale , various repro- ductions or revisions of which had ...
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S. M. Du Pré. Dryden as a Trans- lator . the finest is his translation of Virgil , finished in 1697. Dryden was not an accurate translator , but the sweet- ness of his versification casts a halo over his work , and made his ...
S. M. Du Pré. Dryden as a Trans- lator . the finest is his translation of Virgil , finished in 1697. Dryden was not an accurate translator , but the sweet- ness of his versification casts a halo over his work , and made his ...
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