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motto for the ideal collection of the best English translations of the best epigrams in the Anthology. Of the peculiar difficulty of translating them aright, enough has been said on preceding pages. Of the difficulty of translation in general, the precept and the practice of Dryden alike are evidence. "A translator," he says, "is to make his author appear as charming as possibly he can, provided he maintains his character, and makes him not unlike himself. Translation is a kind of drawing after the life; where every one will acknowledge there is a double sort of likeness, a good one and a bad. 'Tis one thing to draw out the lines true, the features like, the proportions exact, the colouring itself perhaps tolerable; and another thing to make all these graceful, by the posture, the shadowings, and chiefly by the spirit which animates the whole. I cannot, without some indignation, look on an ill copy of an excellent original. Much less can I behold with patience Virgil, Homer, and some others, whose beauties I have been endeavouring all my life to imitate, so abused, as I may say, to their faces, by a botching interpreter. A good poet is no more like himself, in a dull translation, than his carcase would be to his living body. There are many who understand Greek and Latin and yet are ignorant of their mother tongue. . . A man should be a nice critic in his mother tongue before he attempts to translate a foreign language. Neither is it sufficient that he be able to judge of words and style; but he must be a master of them too. He must perfectly understand his author's tongue, and absolutely command his own. So that, to be a thorough translator, he must be a thorough poet. Neither is it enough to give his author's sense in good English, in poetical expressions, and in musical numbers; for, though all these are exceeding difficult to perform,

there yet remains an harder task; and 'tis a secret of
which few translators have sufficiently thought.
have already hinted a word or two concerning it; that
is, the maintaining the character of an author, which
distinguishes him from all others, and makes him appear
that individual poet whom you would interpret." 1 But,
alas though Dryden was a great poet, it has been said
of him that he "was not a translator at all. His 'Virgil'
is in no sense Virgil, but Dryden simply.” 2

1 "Preface concerning Mr. Dryden's Translations."
2 The Literary Remains of Charles Stuart Calverley, p. 191.

Accia Variola, 102

Acland, A. H. D., 194

Addison, Joseph, on the art of praise,

205, 207, 208, 360; on edit-
ing, 153
Aegrotat dæmon, etc., 143
Aeschylus, 174, 175, 204; Persae
(821), 66

Agathias, 303, 318, 337

Alcaeus, III

Allibone, S. A., 6

Allingham, William, 232
Allusive writers, 187

A Lover's Pastime, 274

Alpine books, 17

Amos, Andrew, 161

Anacreon, 305, 328, 361

Anguissola, Count Giovanni, 133

Animals in Greek Literature, 324

Antipater, 323

Apuleius, 350

Ariosto, 10 n.

Aristophanes, 339

Aristotle, Disraeli on, 47; Poetics,
174; Politics, (v. 4) 63, (vii. 15)
64
Arnold, Matthew, as poet and critic,
202; on Browning, 231; on
himself, 231; Swinburne and,
239, 240; on Tennyson, 239
particular works quoted or re-
ferred to :-Balder, 232; Crom-
well, 264; Essays in Criticism,
second series, 231; Geist, 326;
Lucretius (unpublished), 230;
Obermann Once More, 122; On
Translating Homer, 73, 229;
Reports on Elementary Schools,

169; Selected Poems, 14; sonnet
on Shakespeare, 208 ; To a
Friend, 81; Thyrsis, 221, 239
Arrius Antoninus, 109
Art and effect, 284, 287
Artists and critics, 201
Ascham, Roger, 145
Asclepiades, 314, 371

Asquith, H. H., memorial orations,
61, 103; quotations by, 61, 62,

Athenæum, The (Aikin's), 362
Athens, 161

Atterbury, Francis, 83

Augurinus, 110, 111

Augustine, St., 79

Augustus, 147

Ausonius, 344
Austen, Jane, 249
Authors, quarrels of, 203

Babbage, Charles, xiii

Bacon, Francis, 56; De Augmentis,
Ion.; Essays, 13; Spedding's
edition, 190; "The world's a
bubble," 267, 302, 359
Baedeker's Guides, 26
Baiae, 131

Bailey, John, ix
Baillie, Joanna, 242
Balfour, A. J., xvi, 39
Ballot, vote by, 118

Bates, H. W., Naturalist on the
Amazon, 6

Bayle, Pierre, 94, 195
Beatenberg, 14

Beaumont, Sir John, 303 n.
Beaumont and Fletcher, 242

Bergk, 339

Bible, The, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 37, 88,
149; quoted, 168, 255, 334
Biographia Britannica, 10 n.

Birrell, A., edition of Browning,
163, 176

Bishops' Book, the, 29

Bithynia, 138, 147

Blackstone, Sir William, 267
Blackwood's Magazine, 279, 282,
283, 358, 363

Blake, William, 15, 140, 237, 238
Bland, Rev. Robert, 301, 358, 361,
362, 363

Bohn's Classical Library-Greek
Anthology, 365, Pliny's Letters,
98
Boileau, 193

Book of Common Prayer, 11
Books, fate of, 5; knowledge and,
191; readableness, tests of, 1,
2, 4
Books as travelling companions
should be full, 3, 4, 22; com-
panionable, 3, 4, 9; humane, 3 ;
portable, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30;
various, 3, 4, 14; in war, 7-10 ;
on distant expeditions, 6-7 ; on
holiday travels, 12-19
Bootle's Baby, 250
Bossuet, 10
Boswell's Johnson, 3; quoted or re-
ferred to:-22, 23; (April 30,
1773), 91; (April 18, 1775),
191; (Sept. 23, 1777), 244,
246; (May 8, 1781), 36
Bowen, Lord, translation of Virgil,
44 n.

Boyle, Charles Lord, 119
Bradlaugh, Charles, 50

Bradley, Andrew, Commentary on In
Memoriam, 165, 181, 183;
Poetry for Poetry's Sake, 170

Bradshaw's railway guides, 29
Brahms, 234

Bridges, Robert, 375
Brière, 163

Bright, John, 37

British Empire, 58, 59, 60
B.E.F. Times, 10

British Museum, 12, 39
Brockedon, W., 139

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre, 5
Brown, Dr. John, 168

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Aurora
Leigh, 235; Lady Geraldine's
Courtship, 211; Vision of Poets,
210; Wine of Cyprus, 210
Browning, Robert, 3, 21, 163, 234;
on Swinburne, 241; on Tenny-
son, 233; other poets on him:
Mrs. Browning, 211; Landor,
210; Patmore, 233; Swin-
burne, 209; Tennyson, 231;
F. Thompson, 234

particular poems quoted or re-
ferred to :-Abt Vogler, 234;
Aristophanes' Apology, 163, 174,
175, 214, 308; Balaustion's
Adventure, 175, 177, 210;
Bishop Blougram's Apology, 31;
Dramatic Idyls, second series,
209; Fifine at the Fair, 236;
A Grammarian's Funeral, 190;
Instans Tyrannus, 84;
Love
among the Ruins, 234; Pippa
Passes, 318; Ring and the Book,
163, 208; Saul, 234; Selec-
tions, 233; Sordello, 163, 234;
Two Poets of Croisic, 329; A
Woman's Last Word, 234
Bryher, Winifred, 375
Bullen, A. H., 347 n., 361
Burges, George, 365, 366
Burgon, Dean, 365; "Petra," 265
Burke, Edmund, 55, 56, 101
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 236
Burns, John, 5

Burns, Robert, 224, 305
Burton Brown, Mrs., 29

Butler, Dr. A. J., versions from the
Greek Anthology, 305, 341,
350, 368

Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, 140
Butler, Samuel (author of Erewhon),

INDEX

Alps and Sanctuaries, 22; Author-
ess of the Odyssey, 324; Ex
Voto, 18; Iliad in English Prose,
91 n.; Sicilian Origin of the
Odyssey, 30

Byron, M. Arnold on, 229; his
Gradus ad Parnassum, 228;
on Campbell, 284; on Keats,
226, 265; on Landor, 228;
on Pope, 225, 227; on Wolfe,
285; Scott and, 90, 242
particular poems quoted or re-
ferred to:- Childe Harold,
217, (iv. 66) 139, (iv. 179)
32; Don Juan, 198, 228;
English Bards and Scotch Re-
viewers, 361; Hints from Horace,
217; Siege of Corinth, 171;
'Tis time this heart should be
unmoved, 218; Vision of Judg-
ment, 228

Caesar, Julius, 10 n., 57
Callimachus, 110, 111, 317, 333
334, 335, 352, 372, 375
Calpurnia, 146

Calverley, C. S., on Dryden, 378;
translation of Catullus, 71, 214,
of Lucretius, 60 n.
Cambridge, Trinity College, 125
Cameron, Dr., 277
Campbell, Dykes, 229
Campbell, Lewis, 155
Campbell, Thomas, Byron on, 228;

Battle of the Baltic, 286; Beech-
Tree's Petition, 307; Gertrude
of Wyoming, 169; Hohenlinden,
284, 286; Pleasures of Hope,

190; verses, 268
Carlyon, Dr., 216
Carphyllides, 317, 341
Carroll, Lewis, xxi, 236
Carson, Sir Edward, 104

Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 73, 92
Catnach, James, 238

Catullus, 70, 86, 183, 214, 215
Censor of English, 244
Cephalas, 297, 298
Cervantes, 10 n.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 281

Champneys, Basil, Life of Patmore,
232

Character and criticism, 243

Chatham, Earl of, and the classics,
35, 48, 75

Chesterfield's Letters, 298
Chicot, 13

Christians, Pliny and, 112, 138;
Christian note in Greek Antho-
logy, 351

Church, A. J., and Brodribb, 108
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 37
Cicero, 57, 79, 82, 121; Pliny and,
97, 100, 101, 118, 222
Clarendon Press, 175
Clark, A. C., 80

Clark, W. G., 158

Clarke, Sir Edward, 102, 104
Classics, Greek and Latin, abiding
interest, haunting power of, 8,
30, 33, 52, 70, 77, 79, 81;
as travelling companions, 30;
Christian Fathers and, 79 ;
English literature and, vi, 94,
174; first source of familiar
sayings, 142, 312; handing on
flame of enthusiasm, 57; illus-
trations to, 195; inspiration
from, 84; remembered on
solemn occasions, 73, 82, 83;
sea and, 33; study of, its value,

41
quotations from, apt, 52, suggested
by the war, 63 seq., 332, 376;
as index to character, 74 n., 81,
87; a classical peroration in
the making, 53; frequency of,
in Parliament, 36, 41; even
by unliterary politicians, 37,

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