Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 7: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June, 1889
The translation of Stanhope is clearly the work of a purist, but of a purist who, with all his elegance of phrase and delicate turn of expression does not lose sight of the real end of literature.
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