To give reasons for my choice of certain readings in the case of either Michael Angelo's or Campanella's text; to explain why I have sometimes preferred a strictly literal and sometimes a more paraphrastic rendering; or to set forth my views in detail regarding the compromises which are necessary in translation, and which must vary according to the exigencies of each successive problem offered by the original, would occupy too much space.

Disquisitions not only verbal, but merely literal, are too minute for popular narration.

She had thought at one time that she might be able to idealize David Kent, but he had gone his way to hew out his fortune, taking her upstirrings of his ambition in a purely literal and selfish sense, so far as she could determine.

Furthermore it has figurative uses, whereas fracture is narrowly literal.

" "Nancy!" cries Bobby, holding out the fruit to which he alludes, and speaking in a wobbly, quivering voice, with a painfully literal imitation of my late address, "here'shere'shere's a peach!"

She was terribly literal.

* NOTE.The following is a tolerably literal translation of the poem of Lermontof's to which allusion is made on p. 208, and which created no slight sensation when it first appeared, in the year 1838: A THOUGHT.

This was admitted to be accurately literal, in spite of its poetic daring.

The German version, by M. Paul Fuchs,[A] is wonderfully literal.

[299:1] The translation of this difficult passage has been left on purpose somewhat baldly literal.

I commend the following interpretation, which I have sought to make as conscientiously literal as due regard to idioms of language would permit, to all true lovers of liberty and of the Union, of whatever State, section, or nation.