这里还有篇1872年的文章:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3353904?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents,里面有一句:In two respects, this portion of the Oratorio suffers from its transplantation into another people than that for whom it was written. 根据前后文,大意是讨论巴赫从德语“移植”到英语的问题。
更早的话,应该还有1782年的文章,不过语言用法我没读懂。。。