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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: who conEder the celebrated Sri Bhagavata, as the wok of a grammarian fuppofed to have lived about fix hundred years ago. In this, as in feveral other inftances, fome of which I fhall have likewife occafiou to BOtice, the learned among the Hindus have refifted the impositions that have been attempted. In Europe, too, literary forgeries have been, committed, both in antient and modern times. But a native of India, who fhould retort the charge, and argue, from a few inftances, that the whole literature of Europe which is held antient, confifts of modern forgeries, would be juftly cenfured for his prefumption. Some fabricated works, fome interpolated pafiages, will be detected by the fagacity of critics in the progrefs of refearches into the learning of the Eaft: but the greateft part of the books, received by the learned among the. Hindus, will affuredly be found genuine. ' Art. III. The Satires of Juvenal, translated and illustrated. By Francis Hodgson, A.'M, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, London, 1807, 1T7ITH all due respect for the ' declamatory grandeur ' of Ju.. venal, we are not disposed to rank him very high, either as a poet or a moralist. His style is constantly descending into slovenly inelegance, or rising into inflation and pbscurity; while his sounding amplifications, and the obtrusive glare of shining sentences, iM embossed on the body of the work, betray that departure from the simplicity of nature, which marked the decline of Roman taste. Yet there are, in this poet, a power of expression, and a sublimity of conception, that would redeem aH his faults, were we not perpetually disgusted with gross violai tions of all decency and propriety. In the midst of a description, sketched in many points with the hand of a master, we unexpectedly encounter some ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217282345 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217282342 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $20.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 254 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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