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Chap. XIII.
CHAP. XIII.
The Genius of the Translator should be akin to that of the original Author.—The Translators have shone in original Composition of the same Species with that which they have translated.—Of Voltaire's Translations from Shakespeare.—Of the peculiar Character of the Wit of Voltaire.—His Translation from Hudibras.—Excellent anonymous French Translation of Hudibras.—Translation of Rabelais by Urquhart and Motteux.
From the consideration of those general rules of translation which in the foregoing essay I have endea-voured
