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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Excerpt: ... was good enough to send me a translation "published in Temple Bar some four years ago." The bathos of the last line, "And weep for hours," would have relegated it to a Second Class, and it has no countervailing merits. Notes On Translations Of Passage From Freytag's "Doktor Luther." (Seep. 88.) The Freytag presented no unusual difficulties, and might have been set as an unseen in the Woolwich or Indian Civil Service examination. A large proportion of the Fourth and Fifth Classes are due to the following misunderstandings: 1. Sit/, stillness; 2. bewundernden Zeitgenossen, bewildered contemporaries; 3. des Feindes, the Fiend; 4. eine kleine Gehassigkeit, a little animosity; 5. einen wahren Kunstlerei/er, a regular vulgar rage. It is hard to hit on an equivalent for herzliches Schaffen. "Creative energy" comes near to it, but hardly expresses the delight of creation. Wirkt Versohnend'must be turned in some such way as " make us (though not his victims) condone his scurrility." Zwickt was well rendered by Arbutus ' tweaks and pinches." EQUIVALENTS OF GERMAN PROVERBS. (Seep. 114.) I offer an alternative version, not as superior to the Prize version, but to show that for each proverb there are more English equivalents than one. 1. "Fer John P. Robinson he sez the world '11 go right ef he hollers out Gee." 2. "A merry heart goes all the day, but a sad one tires in a mile a'." 3. "Who says nought and does all, welcome is in bower and hall." 4. "Though tongue and tooth be oft at strife, they still jog on like man and wife." 5. "Omittance is not quittance."--" A debt delayed is not paid." --" Docketed bills are not receipts." 6. "A mite given is banked in heaven: hell is paved with millions saved." 7. "God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands." 8. "Of all my mother's sons, I lo...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150215186
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150215186
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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