Alexander Fraser Tytler on Justice
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #70532: "We may certainly, from the foregoing observations, conclude, that is impossible to do complete justice to any species of poetical compositin in a prose translation; in other words…"
Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #235725: "If the order in which I have classed the three general laws of translation be their just and natural arrangement, which I think will hardly be denied, it will follow, that in all …"
2 Quotes by Alexander Fraser Tytler on Justice
"We may certainly, from the foregoing observations, conclude, that is impossible to do complete justice to any species of poetical compositin in a prose translation; in other words, that none but a poet can translate a poet."
"If the order in which I have classed the three general laws of translation be their just and natural arrangement, which I think will hardly be denied, it will follow, that in all cases where a sacrifice is necessary to be made of one of those laws to another, a due regard ought to be paid to their rank and comparative importance."