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  • Tbe queries concerning inoculation, added by the tranflator, (whoni we onderftand to be Dr. fieddoes,) refer to an opinion of Dr. G,

    The Monthly Review 1796

  • The tranflator, adopting the opinion of Voltaire, that this excellent dramatic piece is disfigured by an infipid intrigue, wholly unfuitable to the fublime character of Cato, has ondertaken to cxpicfs

    The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1795

  • Recourfe, we think, ought not to be had to it, except in cafes of abfolute neceiSty, As the tranflator re -. marks, conjeSural emendation is only matter of opinion, and

    The Monthly Review 1795

  • Having thus taken notice of the difficulty of poetical tranf - lation, it may not be amifs to mention the qualificacions of a tranflator of poetry.

    The Monthly Review 1795

  • No tranflator, I am bold to fay, can do juftice to Demofthenes.

    Speeches Pronounced in the National Assembly of France Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti Mirabeau 1792

  • - — The jufl: indignation with which Camoens treats the kindred of the brave Nunio Aharode Pereyra/is condemned by the French tranflator.

    The Lusiad : or, The discovery of India : an epic poem 1791

  • The critic, it is hoped, will perceive that the tranflator has endeavoured to fupport the character of the fpeaker.

    The Lusiad : or, The discovery of India : an epic poem 1791

  • After thanking the tranflator in polite terms, for doing him the horiour as he pxpreffes it, of in - troducing his work into the Eng - lifli language, Mr, Pages gives rea - fons for having avoided in his Travels, fuch a detail refpefting places and perfons, particularly'in what related to himfelf, as would have fc!!

    Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 1791

  • The botanift will regret that the tranflator has omitted M,

    The Monthly Review 1791

  • As for the tranflator, his humility deferves en - conragement: hcfliould be truly flattered, (he fays,) * were it per - mitted him to believe that his copy difplayed any of the artle/s paces of the original.

    The Monthly Review 1791

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