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1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, London: William Pickering, Volume 3, Translator’s Preface, The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, pp. 252-253, A Translator stands connected with the original Author by a certain law of subordination, which makes it more decorous to point out excellencies than defects: indeed he is not likely to be a fair judge of either. The pleasure or disgust from his own labour will mingle with the feelings that arise from an afterview of the original.