Yet evidently something was wrong here, for the poet and the historian ought to have different methods, and Macaulay's method ought to be imitable if it were sound; yet the method was more doubtful than the style.

显这里有些地不对劲， 因为诗人历史学家应该有不同法， 麦考法如果可靠话应该是可以模仿； ，法比风格更令人怀疑。