C TRANSLATED BY PHILIP FRANCIS, D.D. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING TRANSLATIONS OF VARIOUS ODES, &c BY BEN JONSON, COWLEY, MILTON, DRYDEN, POPE ADDISON, SWIFT BENTLEY, CHATTERTON G WAKEFIELD PORSON, BYRON, &c. AND BY SOME OF THE MOST EMINENT POETS OF THE PRESENT DAY. The version of Dr. Francis is highly Horatian: it is moral without dulness, gay and spirited with propriety, and tender without whining. Hence, few translations have gone through more editions, or met with greater applause from the public. -MONTHLY REVIEW. |