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The Works of John Dryden - Volume 18

John Dryden

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. . .81">81 which cannot be conveyed to another without perpetual absurdities.

The qualification of a translator, worth reading, must be, a mastery of the language he translates out of, and that he translates into; but if a deficience be to be allowed in either, it is in the original; since if he be but master enough of the tongue of his author, as to be master of his sense, it is possible for him to express that sense with eloquence in his own, if he have a thorough command of that. But without the latter, he can never arrive at the useful and the delightful; without which reading is a penance and fatigue.

It is true that there will be a great many beauties, which in every tongue depend on the diction, that will be lost55 in the version of a man not skilled in the original language of the author; but then on the other side, first it is impossible to render all those little ornaments of speech in any two languages; and if he have a mastery in the sen. . . Read More

Community Reviews

⭐️⭐️.5
“How do you improve Shakespeare.”
More ladies
More clowns
More innuendo
Less complex plots and emotions

co-written by Dryden. It had some very funny moments.