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| CHAP. III. | ||
Whether it is allowable for a translator to add to or retrench the ideas of the original.—Examples of the use and abuse of this liberty, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Of the freedom allowed in poetical Translation.—Progress of poetical Translation in England.—B. Jonson, Holiday, Sandys, Fanshaw, Dryden.—Roscommon's Essay on translated Verse.—Pope's Homer, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Second general Rule: The style and manner of writing in a Translation should be of the same character with that of the Original.—A just Taste requisite for the discernment of the Characters of Style and Manner.—Examples of failure in this particular:—The grave exchanged for the formal;—the elevated for the bombast;—the lively for the petulant;—the simple for the childish.—Hobbes, L'Estrange, Eachard, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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