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in another, no fewer than thirty to represent nine. But this is not 

 to translate. Though a single grace or illustration may be ad- 

 mitted by a translator, provided it be done rarely, and in the 

 true spirit of the original, such licentiousness should never be to- 

 lerated. It turns beauty into deformity, and sinks the sublime to 

 the bathos. 



Erratcm, page 2*, note, 3d line,-/or Tolumine, 4c. read volutnini inlegros. 



