...nor "to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes the author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country" (Dryden, Essays, I, 239). 8 Hagstrum, The Sister Arts, p. 213. 9 Dryden, Essays, H, 252-253. 10 Abrams,...

...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country' (Dryden, Of Dramatic Poesy, I, pp. 268-70). The important difference between the second and third methods...

...equally denies validity to the last method, in which the translator writes "as he supposes that the Author would have done, had he lived in our Age and in our Country". He argues that although in the hands of a master poet-translator this libertine method may produce...

...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived...dare not say, that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it) so far as my definition reaches; for in...

...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern and to write, as he supposes that author would have done had he lived in our age, and in our country." Bruni, of course, accepts a stricter discipline of sense than that implied here - but Dryden himself...

...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write as he supposes that author would have done had he lived...dare not say that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr Cowley calls it) so far as my definition reaches. For in...