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REPLY1850

FAIRFAX'S TRANSLATION OF TASSO

By THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.

On referring to my memoranda, I find that the copy of Fairfax's translation of the *Gerusalemme Liberata* of Tasso, containing the *third* variation of the first stanza, noticed in my last, has the *two* earliest pages reprinted, in order that the alteration might be more complete, and that the substitution, by pasting one stanza over another (as the book is usually met with) might not be detected. A copy with the reprinted leaf is, I apprehend, still in the library of the late William Wordsworth; and during the last twenty years I have never been able to procure, or even to see, another with…

Topics: Translation, Literature, Historical Texts

Locations: Tortosa, Sion, Judaies