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 one another, and that they would have pleased more had the sense ended with the couplet. I once thought the same; and in many a school translation 'rhymed and rattled' on very glibly, and very much to my own satisfaction; but I subsequently formed a different (I must not say a more correct) opinion of the duty of a translator; and to that, notwithstanding the gentle admonitions which have been conveyed to me, I continue to adhere. It will be readily admitted that I have not adopted the most easy mode of translation;—since, not content with giving the author's sense, I have entered as far as it was in my power into his feelings, and exhibited as much of his manner, nay of his language (i. e. his words), as I possibly could. Expressions which have been usually avoided, as not germane to our tongue, are here hazarded, for the simple purpose of bringing 'Homer' as he wrote before the unlearned reader, who may be assured, that he will find, in few versions, as much of the original as in the present for this of course he must take my affirmation,—nor is this all, for I have given him no more than the original; all that will be found here, is to be found in 'Homer.

After all, however, I cannot help apprehending