No one can doubt that Congreve would do anything
well which he undertook. The Eleventh Satire was
fortunate enough to engage his attention. His
translation, faulty as it is in point of rhymes, surely
does more than ' deserve forgiveness ' as Johnson
says of it. Mr. Power has done his utmost to
annihilate every shadow of merit in the twelfth.
Creech chose the thirteenth ; and performed his
task like himself, unequally, but upon the whole
with vigour. Johnson says, but he says it with a
perhaps, ' that Creech is the only one of these trans-
lators who has not lost sight of the dignity of
Juvenal ; although they all, more or less, have pre-
served his point.' This was a prudent * perhaps.* John
Dryden, jun. translated the Fourteenth Satire very
creditably. But I fancy I see the father here again.
Children like tender osiers take the bow,
And as they first are fashion'd always grow.
I have given this general account of Dryden's
coadjutors, because I did not think the real merit
of some of them had ever been sufficiently appre-
ciated. They abound in beauties, although they
have many faults.
58 MEMOIR OF REV. F. HODGSON*

Further on, Hodgson states what he considers to
have been the object of his original.
An object, which I consider a very noble one, namely,
that of exposing vice in its true colours and natural
deformity.
With reference to his style he quotes Johnson.
Juvenal's peculiarity is a mixture of stateliness and
gaiety, of pointed sentences and declamatory gran-
deur.
And Gifford.
