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 translate language into language, and to have placed their whole merit in presenting a literal and servile transcript of their original.

Author:Ben Jonson, in his translation of Horace's Art of Poetry, has paid no attention to the judicious precept of the very poem he was translating.

Witness the following specimens, which will strongly illustrate Denham's judicious observations.