We may certainly, from the foregoing observations, conclude, that is impossible to do complete justice to any species of poetical compositin in a pro… - Alexander Fraser Tytler

It is always a fault when the translator adds to the sentiment of the original author, what does not strictly accord with his characteristic mode of thinking, or expressing himself.

The English language is not incapable of an elliptical mode of expression; but it does not admit of it to the same degree as the Latin.

The Greek language, from the frequency and familiarity of ellipsis, allows a conciseness of expression which is scarcely attainable in any other tongue, and perhaps least of all in the English. ...
The Latin language, too, though in an inferior degree to the Greek, admits of a brevity, which cannot be successfully imitated in the English.