...whether the translation should be in rhyme, blank verse, or prose. " A translator," said Dryden, " is to be like his author : it is not his business to excel him." But yet he himself frequently in his translations neither resembles nor excels his original. Thus,...

...dress of diction as the author would have given them had his language been English. ... A translator is to be like his author ; it is not his business to excel him. Tradition in Dryden's day, owing to the bad example of Ben Jonson's renderings of Horace, of George...

...ostentation is not to be repressed, nor sententious affectation to have its points blunted. A translator is to be like his author : it is not his business to excel him. . It seldom happens that all the necessary causes concur to any great effect : will is wanting to power,...

...could entertain who would follow his author — ' Non it;i certandi cupidus quam propter amorem.' ' A translator (says he) is to be like his author :...renders Horace's ' si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno qute dedit,' by ' But if she dances in the wind And shakes her wings and will not stay, I puff the...

...recognition of their kindred souls. Indeed, if we were to accept Johnson's dictum that 'a translator is to be like his author: it is not his business to excel him' , then Richardson could not have dreamt of a more suitable candidate. Stinstra, the far more learned...

...English poet Translation Traduttori, traditori. Translators, traitors. Italian proverb A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Nor ought a genius less than his that...

...ostentation is not to be repressed, nor sententious affectation to have its points blunted. A translator is to be like his author: it is not his business to excel him." -"Johnson's translator is not so much a creator as a linguistic transvestite; his work is judged by...

...ostentation is not to be repressed, nor sententious affectation to have its points blunted. A translator is to be like his author: it is not his business to excel him. 25 Johnson's divergence from the passage which he otherwise follows very closely is slight, though...

...George Steiner, who wrote (After Babel: Aspects of Language and translation, 1975:402): A translator is to be like his author, it is not his business to excel him. Where he does so, the original is subtly injured, and the reader is robed of a just view. In our example,...

...of its stylistic faults. He therefore implicitly rejects Dr Johnson's statement that "a translator is to be like his author: it is not his business to excel him". In opposition to this view, Price contended that it is "scarcely [...] possible for a translator to...