Posted by paxvox on June 11, 2003, at 19:22:29
In reply to Re: Ripening up via Dryden Pax, posted by Oddipus Rex on June 10, 2003, at 18:49:33
Actually, from an 1823 print (third American edition) of the works of Virgil, printed in NY by J&J Harper "for the use of schools as well as private gentlemen".[ Dryden's translations are scattered througout the works, as well as Lauderdale, Pitt and other classically-trained scholars. Dryden's prose is beautiful, indeed, but he does take some liberty with literal translation at the sake of the original syntax in order for it to fit his meter and rhyme]. Original leather bound book owned by my great-great grandfather,who had a "boy's academy" near Fredericksburg, VA from about 1830-1870. It was located on what used to be our family land (until about 1990),and called "Walnut Hill Academy". If you would like some Greek, I can do that for you too. I have a collection of several hundred of my G.G.G.F's books, most dating from about 1790-1870, all leather-bound with excellent frontispieces and tissue-covered pictures. Really gald to have them still in family hands.
Pax
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