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The Indicatior; A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside
The Indicatior A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside Author:Leigh Hunt General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: Wiley and Putnam Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. A Word on Translation from the Poets. Intelligent men of no scholarship, on reading Horace, Theocritus, and other poets, through the medium of translation, have often wondered how those writers obtained their glory. And they well might. The translations are no more like the original than a walking-stick is like a flowering bough. It is the same with the versions of Euripides, of jEschylus, of Sophocles, of Petrarch, of Boileau,« less