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Excerpt from A Translation of Juvenal and Persius Into English Verse: With I. A Chronology Adapted to Their Writings; II. An Essay on the Satire of the Ancients, and the Abuses of Modern Satire; And III. A Confutation of the Censure Past Upon the First Edition of This Work by the Critical Reviewers
Thefe few things, if they are well founded, as the tran?ator hopes, are fu?icient to jollify his prefent attempt. More might be faid; and fome of the preceding remarks upon trantlation in gene ral might be rendered plainer by examples. But they carry their own evidence to perfons, who have attended to the genius of language; and a preface admits not of difi'ufton. The public judg ment (as was mentioned before) mull now deter mine and, for the moft part, it determines right. For, contrary to one of the {landing canons of minute criticifm, * it fuffers a general alfemblage of merit' to hide fmaller blemifhes.
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