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"It is this principle [i.e. the interpretation of an original] which constitutes the true value of a really good translation—not as superseding the original even to the worst scholar, but as explaining it even to the best."
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John ConingtonVirtues a mere name, — John Conington
"Virtues a mere name, Or tis high venture that achieves high aim."
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John Conington
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John Conington was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 until his death.
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"No, trust the Muse: she opes the good mans grave, And lifts him to the gods."
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"Death takes the mean man with the proud; The fatal urn has room for all."
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"Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails The lapse of gliding years to stay, With wrinkled age it nought avails Nor conjures conquering Death away."
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"An inferior artists only chance of giving pleasure."
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"Blank verse really deserving the name I believe to be impossible except to one or two eminent writers in a generation."
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