...represent the meaning of the original, without addition or paraphrase, as nearly as I could attain to it. The collection as a whole is not worth the trouble of versifying. But with my labours before him, any one who is willing to undertake the labour may present "the pieces...

...touching me more nearly, Nee desilies imitator in arctnm, Unde pedem proferre pudor retet, aut operis lex. There are, indeed, pieces in it which no treatment...hope, satisfy my readers, that these ancient Chinese pooms have, as a whole, not a little poetical merit. At any rate they have those poems, and not others...

...represent the meaning of the original, without addition or paraphrase, as nearly as I could attain to it. The collection as a whole is not worth the trouble of versifying. But with my labors before him, anyone who is willing to undertake the labor may present the pieces...