...worthily. If, as Cowper says, "A just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible, since no human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense and only the sense of the original," how could he hope to succed in a work, certainly not less...

...ought to bo, or who is in any degree practically acquainted writh those kinds of versification. ... No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense and only the full sense of the original." And if the true object of translation were to save...

...ought to he, or who is in any degree practically acquainted with those kinds of versification. ... No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotoiious, expressing at the same time the full sense and only the full sense of the original." And...

...who is in any degree practically acquainted with those [very different] kinds of versification. . . . No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense, of the original.' 1 And if the true object of translation were to save...

...Für Übersetzungen in gebundener Rede ist nur der Blankvers geeignet. Reim ist ausgeschlossen, denn „no human ingenuity can be equal to the task of...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original" (Pref. VII). e) Vergleichung von Addisons, Johnsons...

...venture to assert that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible," he declares. "No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense of his original. The translator's ingenuity, indeed, in this case becomes itself a snare, and...

...throw light upon it from various angles. The couplet he immediately repudiates as an enemy to fidelity. "I will venture to assert that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible," he declares. "No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous,...

...and discarded? "I will venture to assert," said Cowper, "that a just translation of any ancient poem in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense, of the original." In like manner other writers have inveighed against...

...in his preface to his own translation of the Iliad (1791): 'No human ingenuity [ie not even Pope's] can be equal to the task of closing every couplet...sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.' To escape the tyranny of the rhyming couplet and facilitate...

...accuracy. In his preface to his Iliad (1791) Cowper censures Pope's rhymed couplets with these words: "I will venture to assert that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme, is impossible [...]. Mr Pope has surmounted all difficulties in his version of I lomer that it was possible to surmount...