Excerpt from Horace While we read with pleasure many beautiful imitations of this author in his own language, and are at the same time obliged to confess how unequal to their original all translations of him have proved, even when the whole strength seems to have been employed upon single and favorite odes, we shall be apt to conclude that his beauties are almost peculiar to the Latin tongue. But if we consider the boldness and cepionsness of expression, the diversity and harmony of numbers in English, we shall impute the ...
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Excerpt from Horace While we read with pleasure many beautiful imitations of this author in his own language, and are at the same time obliged to confess how unequal to their original all translations of him have proved, even when the whole strength seems to have been employed upon single and favorite odes, we shall be apt to conclude that his beauties are almost peculiar to the Latin tongue. But if we consider the boldness and cepionsness of expression, the diversity and harmony of numbers in English, we shall impute the failure of his translators to some. What injudicious in their design, or careless in their execution, rather than to any personal want of abilities, or any weakness in their language; to the real dificulty of the work, not an impossibility of executing it with success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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