human
and is altogether wrong in rendering _Patrizier_ by
gpt
At the top of the next page, too,
human
is not the word for _bedenklich_. Had he been writing English, he would surely have said
gpt
On page 47,
human
is hardly so good as the idiomatic
gpt
On page 104,
human
A very humorous representation is oddly made to
gpt
The reverse is meant. On page 115, the sentence beginning
human
needs revising. On page 138, Mr. Evans speaks of the
gpt
Poetical Village-younker of Destouches. This, we think, is hardly the English of _Le Poète Campagnard_, and almost recalls Lieberkühn's theory of translation, toward which Lessing was so unrelenting,--
human
When I do not understand a passage, why, I translate it word for word. On page 149,
gpt
Miss Sara Sampson is called
human
All tragedies surely are _social_, except the
gpt
Prometheus. _Bürgerliche Tragödie_ means a tragedy in which the protagonist is taken from common life, and perhaps cannot be translated clearly into English except by
human
So on page 170 we find Emilia Galotti called a
gpt
Virginia _bourgeoise_, and on page 172 a hospital becomes a _lazaretto_. On page 190 we have a sentence ending in this strange fashion:
human
On page 205 we have the Seven Years' War called
gpt
This is mere carelessness, for Mr. Evans, in the second volume, translates it rightly
human
What English reader would know what
gpt
You are intriguing me means, on page 228? On page 264, Vol. II., we find a passage inaccurately rendered, which we consider of more consequence, because it is a quotation from Lessing.
human
O, out upon the man who claims, Almighty God, to be a preacher of Thy word, and yet so impudently asserts that, in order to attain Thy purposes, there was only one way in which it pleased _Thee_ to make _Thyself_ known to him!