Alexander Fraser Tytler on Freedom
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, catalogued under freedom, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #221555: "But if authors, even of taste and genius, be found at times to have made an injudicious use of that liberty which is allowed in the translation of poetry, we must expect to see it…"
Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #105180: "The familiar style of epistolary correspondence is rarely attainable even in original composition. It consists in a delicate medium between the perfect freedom of ordinary convers…"
2 Quotes by Alexander Fraser Tytler on Freedom
"But if authors, even of taste and genius, be found at times to have made an injudicious use of that liberty which is allowed in the translation of poetry, we must expect to see it miserably abused indeed, where those talents are evidently wanting."
"The familiar style of epistolary correspondence is rarely attainable even in original composition. It consists in a delicate medium between the perfect freedom of ordinary conversation and the regularity of written dissertation or narrative. It is extremely difficult to attain this delicate medium in a translation: because the writer has neither a freedom of choice in the sentiments, nor in the mode of expressing them."