"Dull as a twice-told tale."

“The Lusiad by Luis de Camõens trans. by William Julius Mickle — full text at sacred-texts.com”

“Nor let the critic, if he find the meaning of Camoens in some instances altered, imagine that he has found a blunder in the Translator. ... It was not to gratify the dull few, whose greatest pleasure in reading a translation is to see what the author exactly says; it was to give a poem that might live in the English language which was the ambition of the Translator. ... And the original is in the hands of the world.”