CHA P. III.

Whether it is allowable for a Tranflator to add to

or retrench the ideas of the original.-Exam-

ples of the ufe and abufe of this liberty,

CHA P. IV.

Of the freedom allowed in poetical Translation.-

Progrefs of poetical Tranflation in England.→

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

Dryden.-Rofcommon's Effay on Translated

Verfe.-Pope's Homer,

CHA P. V.

Second general Rule: The ftyle and manner of

writing in a Translation should 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,

CHA P. VIII.

Whether a Poem can be well Tranflated into

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Profe?

CHA P. IX.

Third general Rule: A Tranflation fhould have

all the ease of original compofition.-Extreme

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difficulty in the obfervance of this rule.-Con-
trafled infiances of fuccefs and failure.—Of
the neceffity of facrificing one rule to another,

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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219

CHA P. XI.

Of the Tranflation of Idiomatic Phrases.—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,

CHA P. XII.

Difficulty of Tranflating Don Quixote, from its
Idiomatic Phrafeology.—Of the best Transla-
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 Expreffion.-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 Hiftory,

CHA P. XIV.

Of Burlesque Tranflation.-Travesty and Parody.-Scarron's Virgile Travefti. - Another fpecies of Ludicrous Tranflation,

CHA P. XV.

The genius of the Tranflator should be akin to that of the original author.—The beft Tranflators have fhone in original compofition of the fame fpecies with that which they have tranflated.-Of Voltaire's Tranflations from ShakeSpeare. Of the peculiar character of the wit of Voltaire.-His Tranflation from Hudibras. -Excellent anonymous French Tranflation of Hudibras.-Translation of Rabelais by Urquhart and Motteux,

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