 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sider
...Denham, to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the PASTOR FIDO : That servile path thou noblydost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line...verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin, a most severe and compendious language, often expresses that in one word, which either the barbarity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 sider
...Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affcrJs " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, " To make translations...flame, ' , " True to his sense, but truer to his fame." ., • , The excellence of these lines Is greater, as the truth whidi they contain was not at that... | |
 | John Bell - 1800 - 440 sider
...affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly sticks at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue 21 To make translations and translators too. They but...the flame, True to his sense but truer to his fame i Fording his current, where thou find'st it low 15 Lett'st in thine own to make it rise and flow,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1802 - 686 sider
...contrasting his manner of translating with that of the herd of servile writers of that class, he says, They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame ; True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Such lines gave him some rightful claim to Pope's epithet of " majestic Denham ;" and doubtless prepared... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 sider
...Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words.. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, " To make translations...preserve the ashes, thou the flame, " True to his tense, bat truer to his fame." The excellence of these lines Is greater, as the truth which they contain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 sider
..." Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, " To make translations...flame, " True to his sense, but truer to his fame. The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that time generally... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 sider
...Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido : That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line...verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word, which either the barbarity,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 sider
...Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido : That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line...verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word, which either the barharity,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 490 sider
...sticks at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations and translators too : ["hey but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame : 'ording his current, where thou find'st it low 174 SIR JOHN DENHAM. New names, new dressings, and... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 sider
...; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thonghts, hut poorly sticks at words.. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations and translators too : They but preservfl the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame : Fording his current,... | |
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That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. 
