--"Udrallo il bel paese, Ch' Apennin parte, e 'l mar circonda e l'Alpe." PETRARCA. Whatever defects may exist in my attempt at rendering "Corinne" into English, be it remembered, that _we_ have many words for one meaning--in French there are several significations for the same word. Repetition, an elegance in French, is a barbarism in English. Thus I had to contend with a tautology almost unmanageable, and even a reiteration of the same sentiments. Sentences, harmonious in French, lost all agreeable cadence, until entirely reconstructed. Madame de Staël's diffuse manner obliged me also to transpose pretty freely. I found, in so doing, many self-contradictions, some of which I coul…
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