...unvarnished nature the hackneyed terms of trite and common-place, I must reply with Dryden, " That when a painter copies " from the life, I suppose he...face " which he has drawn would be more exact if the " eyes or nose were altered, but it is his business to " make it resemble the original. In two cases...

...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...the face which he has drawn, would be more exact, if theeyes or nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases...

...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...face which he has drawn would be more exact, if the eyes or nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only...

...taken in pieces, carried upon camels' backs, and rejoined together at Suez. Browne'* Vulgar Errourt. It will be replied that he receives advantage by this...but I rejoin, that a translator has no such right. Dryden. Thoughts, which at Hyde-park-corner I forgot, Meet and rejoin me in the pensive grot. rope....

...character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receive^ advantage by this lopping of his superfluous branches...face, which he has drawn, would be more exact, if the eyes or nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only...

...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives advantage from this lopping of his superfluous branches; but I rejoin, that a translator has no such right. When...

...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...which* he has drawn, would be more exact, if the eye* S2S or nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only...

...Ovid. It will he replied, that he receives advantage hy this lopping of his superfluous hranches ; hut I rejoin, that a translator has no such right. When...lineaments, under pretence that his picture will look hetter: perhaps the face, which he has drawn, would he more exact, if the iy« or noи were altered...

...lines should be confined to the measure of the original. The sense of an author, generally speaking, is to be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid...face which he has drawn would be more exact if the eyes and nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases...

...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied...face which he has drawn would be more exact if the eyes and nose were altered; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only...