 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1833 - 396 pages
...undertaking. It was first suggested to me by a remark made by Mr. Charles Lamb to an honoured friend of mine : that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre...Greek tragedians, than from any other versions of them he was acquainted with. The following remarks by Goethe himself confirmed me in it: — " We Germans... | |
 | 1833 - 598 pages
...translations. He says he was encouraged to make the attempt, by hearing that Mr C. Lamb had remarked that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre...the Greek tragedians, than from any other versions he was acquainted with. The sense and object of the original is at least directly conveyed in them... | |
 | Sophocles - 1848 - 318 pages
...Fanst, informs us that Mr. Charles Lamb once remarked to Mr. Cary, the translator of Dante, that ho had derived more pleasure from the meagre Latin versions...professed English translations : no man would take a Latin proso version as his representative of the meaning of a Greek poet, if his own literature furnished... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1856 - 344 pages
...undertaking. It was first suggested to me by a remark made by Mr. Charles Lamb to an honored friend of mine,* that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre...tragedians, than from any other versions, of them he was acquainted with. The following remarks by Goethe himself confirmed me in it: — " We Germans... | |
 | Ludwig Geiger - 1904 - 478 pages
...Smiles, Memoir of J. Murray I, 297 — 302 u. Coleridges Leiters, ed. Coleridge, II, 674 fg.] of mine: that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre Latin versions of the Greak tragedies, than from any other versions of them he was acquainted with. The following remarks... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1886 - 346 pages
...Hayward, acting on a suggestion arising from a remark once made by Charles Lamb to a friend of his — " that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre...Greek tragedians, than from any other versions of them he was acquainted with " — set about making a translation of Goethe's ' Faust ' into English prose... | |
 | Ludwig Geiger - 1904 - 486 pages
...Smiles, Memoir of J. Murray I, 297 — 302 u. Coleridges Leiters, ed. Coleridge, II, 674 fg.] of mine : that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre Latin versions of the Greak tragedies, than from any other versions of them he was acquainted with. The following remarks... | |
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Lamb to an honoured friend of mine : that he had derived more pleasure from the meagre Latin versions of the Greek tragedians, than from any other versions of them he was acquainted with. 