text:  By this means the spirit of an author may be transfused and yet not lost; and thus it is plain that the reason alleged by Sir John Denham has no further force than the expression; for thought if it be translated truly cannot be lost in another language; but the words that convey it to our apprehension (which are the image and ornament of that thought) may be so ill chosen as to make it appear in an unhandsome dress and rob it of its native lustre