Essay on the Principles of Translation

CHAPTER VI

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Examples of a good Taste in poetical Translation—Bourne’s Translations from Mallet and from Prior—The Duke de Nivernois, from Horace—Dr. Jortin, from Simonides—Imitation of the same by the Archbishop of York—Mr. Webb, from the Anthologia—Hughes, from Claudian—Fragments of the Greek Dramatists by Mr. Cumberland 80