 | Esaias Tegnér - 1848 - 446 pages
...from inability to do better; and not because I do not see my faults, or because I have not endeavoured to make my work as good as I could, with more pains...than were altogether justified by the nature of it. I resort to the same authority for a brief commentary on Mr. Longfellow's translation. " Nattvardsbarnen... | |
 | Esaias Tegnér (bp. of Wexiö.) - 1848 - 464 pages
...inability to do better; and* not because I do not see my faults, or because I have not endeavoured to make my work as good as I could, with more pains...than were altogether justified by the nature of it. I resort to the same authority for a brief commentary on Mr. Longfellow's translation. " Nattvardsbarnen... | |
 | 1914 - 1034 pages
...the hand of the noted philologist, Robert Gordon Latham (1812-1888), who also translated Frithiofs saga. His rendering is often free and the meter of...whole, a decided improvement on former translations. The sixth translation of Axel was done by an American lady, Mrs. Caroline Crane Marsh, wife of the... | |
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I feel myself wholly innocent, at least, of carelessness. I wish to own that, where I have failed to render the spirit of my author, it is from inability to do better, and not because I do not see my faults, or because I have not endeavored to make my... 