“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, had done little to bring us nearer to the heroic heroes of antiquity” (id, 100).
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