...adventure ? If, because of the immense fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the help of a translator,...cost save that of absolute violence to our language. The use of certain allowable constructions which, happening to be out of daily favor, are al] the more...

...adventure ? If, because of the immense fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the help of a translator,...cost save that of absolute violence to our language. The use of certain allowable constructions which, happening to be out of daily favor, are all the more...

...fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the Ip of a translator, I should require him to be literal at every i save that of absolute violence to our language. The use of in allowable constructions which, happening...

...originales et les plus abruptes." ' — COLLET. "If I could only know" (the Agamemnon of ^Eschylus) "by the help of a translator, I should require him...cost save that of absolute violence to our language * * *. A mere strict, bald version of thing by thing, is what the reader of a translation should look...

...originales et les plus abruptes.' ' — COLLET. " If I could only know " (the Agamemnon of ./Eschylus) "by the help of a translator, I should require him...cost save that of absolute violence to our language * * *. A mere strict, bald version of thing by thing, is what the reader of a translation should look...

...or command of Carlyle. The argument of the preface fails to justify Browning's method. A translation "literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language " may be highly desirable ; it is commonly called a " crib " ; and a crib contrived by one who is not...

...manner in which he is mentioned in the preface.1 One who approaches the Agamemnon with a determination " to be literal at every cost, save that of absolute violence to our language" can hardly expect to please widely ; moreover, the metre chosen to represent the iambic trimeters of...

...of the fault which Mr. Ernest Dowden pointed out in the case of Browning's Agamemnon : A translation "literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language" may be highly desirable; it is commonly called a "crib" ; and a "crib" contrived by one who is not...

...adventure ? If, because of the immense fame of the following Tragedy, I wished to acquaint myself with it, and could only do so by the help of a translator,...to be literal at every cost save that of absolute j violence to our language. The use of certain allowable constructions which, happening to be out of...

...and contains a version ol Euripides' "Herakles." "The Agamemnon of jEschylus " is a translation, " literal at every cost save that of absolute violence to our language." For Life of Browning, see under " Biography " [B]. For the history of Browning's poetical developments,...