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... translations by Edward Craven Hawtrey , containing a copy of English hexameters which Mr. Matthew Arnold in his lectures on the translation of Homer declared to be the best in existence . The same cannot quite be said of Eton's provosts ...
... translations by Edward Craven Hawtrey , containing a copy of English hexameters which Mr. Matthew Arnold in his lectures on the translation of Homer declared to be the best in existence . The same cannot quite be said of Eton's provosts ...
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... translating for the increase of their learning , has absolutely no reference to ignorant boys composing for the benefit of their minds . The permanent value of such efforts on the part of the most successful labourers may , we suppose ...
... translating for the increase of their learning , has absolutely no reference to ignorant boys composing for the benefit of their minds . The permanent value of such efforts on the part of the most successful labourers may , we suppose ...
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... has for his tutor , or his dutiful endeavour to do the best he can for the classical authors in translating them , coupled with the deeply - rooted conviction that whatever you do , you cannot ' make sense 58 Our Public Schools .
... has for his tutor , or his dutiful endeavour to do the best he can for the classical authors in translating them , coupled with the deeply - rooted conviction that whatever you do , you cannot ' make sense 58 Our Public Schools .
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... translations . We should be glad to think that all schoolboys were as good - humoured as the author of this nice little book , who , from first to last , never says a bad word of anybody . But , alas ! if boys have naturally good ...
... translations . We should be glad to think that all schoolboys were as good - humoured as the author of this nice little book , who , from first to last , never says a bad word of anybody . But , alas ! if boys have naturally good ...
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... as French verses from Mr. Swinburne , or English translations of French from the gifted Bengal singer Miss Toru Dutt . The mischievous teaching which culminates in verses runs through only Public School Education . 351.
... as French verses from Mr. Swinburne , or English translations of French from the gifted Bengal singer Miss Toru Dutt . The mischievous teaching which culminates in verses runs through only Public School Education . 351.
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