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С Н А Р. III.

Whether it is allowable for a Tranflator to add to

or retrench the ideas of the original.-Exam-

ples of the use and abuse of this liberty,

Of the freedom allowed in poetical Translation.-

Progrefs of poetical Translation in England.-

B. Fonfon, Holiday, May, Sandys, Fanshaw,

Dryden.-Rofcommon's Efay on Tranflated

Verfe.-Pope's Homer,

CHA P. V.

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Second general Rule: The flyle and manner of

writing in a Tranflation fhould be of the fame

character with that of the Original.-Tranf-

lations of the Scriptures Of Homer, &c.—

A juft Tafte requifite for the difcernment of the

Characters of Style and Manner.-Examples

of failure in this particular;―The grave ex-

changed for the formal;-the elevated for the

bombaft; -the lively for the petulant; the

fimple for the childish.-Hobbes, L'Eftrange,

Echard, &c.

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CHA P. VI.

Examples of a good Tafte in poetical Translation.

-Bourne's Tranflations from Mallet and from

Prior.-The Duke de Nivernois, from Horace.

-Dr Fortin, from Simonides.-Imitation of

the fame by the Archbishop of York.—Mr

Webb, from the Anthologia.-Hughes, from

Claudian.-Fragments of the Greek Drama-

tifts by Mr Cumberland,

CHA P. VII.

Limitation of the Rule regarding the Imitation

of Style.—This Imitation must be regulated by

the Genius of Languages.-The Latin admits

of a greater brevity of Expreffion than the

English; as does the French.-The Latin and

Greek allow of greater Inverfions than the

English,-and admit more freely of Ellipfis,

CHAP. VIII.

Whether a Poem can be well Translated into

Pag.

142

168

Third general Rule: A Translation should have
all the cafe of original compofition.-Extreme

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difficulty in the obfervance of this rule.-Con-

trafied infiances of fuccefs and failure.-Of

the neceffity of facrificing one rule to another, 199

CHA P. X.

It is lefs difficult to attain the ease of original ·

compofition in Poetical, than in Profe Transla

tion.-Lyric Poetry admits of the greatest li-

berty of Tranflation.-Examples diftinguishing

Paraphrafe from Tranflation, from Dry-

den, Lowth, Fontenelle, Prior, Anguillara,

Hughes,

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CHA P. XI.

Of the Tranflation of Idiomatic Phrafes.-Ex-

amples from Cotton, Echard, Sterne.—Inju

dicious ufe of Idioms in the Tranflation, which

do not correfpond with the age or country of

the Original. Idiomatic Phrafes fometimes in-

capable of Tranflation,

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CHA P. XII.

Difficulty of Tranflating Don Quixote, from its

Idiomatic Phrafeology.-Of the beft Tranfla-

tions of that Romance.—Comparison of the

Tranflation by Motteux with that by Smollet,

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CHA P. XIII.

Other characteristics of Compofition which render

Tranflation difficult.-Antiquated Terms.-

New Terms.-Verba Ardentia.-Simplicity

of Thought and Expression.-In Profe-In

Poetry.-Naiveté in the latter.-Chaulieu,-

Parnelle, La Fontaine.-Series of Minute

Diftinctions marked by characteristic Terms.

-Strada. Florid Style, and vague expreffion.

-Pliny's Natural History,

Of Burlesque Translation.-Travesty and Paro-

dy.-Scarron's Virgile Travefti. Another

fpecies of Ludicrous Tranflation,

CHA P. XV.

The genius of the Tranflator fhould be akin to

that of the original author.-The beft Tranfla-

tors have fhone in original compofition of the

fame fpecies with that which they have tranf-

lated.-Of Voltaire's Tranflations from Shake-

Speare. Of the peculiar character of the wit

of Voltaire.-His Tranflation from Hudibras.

-Excellent anonymous French Tranflation of

Hudibras.-Tranflation of Rabelais by Ur-

quhart and Motteux,

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