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Page 167
... translator's genius ; that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perspicuity should be studied , and unusual and uncouth names sparingly inserted ...
... translator's genius ; that he should be such as may deserve a translation ; that he who intends to translate him should endeavour to understand him ; that perspicuity should be studied , and unusual and uncouth names sparingly inserted ...
Page 168
... translation will not satisfy ; ; what he found obscure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Irae are well translated ; though the best line in the Dies Irae is borrowed ...
... translation will not satisfy ; ; what he found obscure , I do not know that he has ever cleared . Among his smaller works , the Eclogue of Virgil and the Dies Irae are well translated ; though the best line in the Dies Irae is borrowed ...
Page 277
... translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the con- versation that he had set on between the Hinds and Panthers , and all the rest of animals , for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough as an ...
... translation ; and this may be , for aught I know , as good an entertainment for him as the con- versation that he had set on between the Hinds and Panthers , and all the rest of animals , for whom M. Varillas may serve well enough as an ...
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