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Essay on the Principles of Translation

Note 18 — Chapter IV

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That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too: They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame; True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Denham to Sir R. Fanshaw.

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