Alexander Fraser Tytler on Writing
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, catalogued under writing, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #75770: "The English language is not incapable of an elliptical mode of expression; but it does not admit of it to the same degree as the Latin."
Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler, entry #127133: "Next in importance to a faithful transfusion of the sense and meaning of an author, is an assimilation of the style and manner of writing in the translation to that of the origina…"
2 Quotes by Alexander Fraser Tytler on Writing
"The English language is not incapable of an elliptical mode of expression; but it does not admit of it to the same degree as the Latin."
"Next in importance to a faithful transfusion of the sense and meaning of an author, is an assimilation of the style and manner of writing in the translation to that of the original."