 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline, " Of tracing word by word and line by line. " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, " Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; " Cheap... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator. That servile path thon nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labourM birth of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains: Cheap vulgar arts,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 626 Seiten
...Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on his verfion of the Paftor Fido : That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line, A new and nobler way thou doft purfue, To make tranflations and tranflators too : They but preferve the allies, thou the flame,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brtins, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap Vulgar... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 628 Seiten
...Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on his vcr-. lion of the Paftor Fido : That fervile path thou nobly doft decline. Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou doft purfue, To make tranflations and tranflators too : They but preferve the afhes, thou the flame*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " '1 hat servile path thou nobly dost decline, " Of tracing word by word, and line by line. "Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains, " Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; " Cheap vulgar... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 Seiten
...the expression and measure of the Latin. See this singular composition in the Appendix, NO. 2. f * That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing...the flame; True to his sense, but truer to his fame. DEMI AM to SIR R. FAXSHAW, BUT it was to Dryden that poetical translation owed a complete emancipation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 Seiten
...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline, " Of tracing word by word and line by line. " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, " Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; * It is... | |
 | 1845 - 816 Seiten
...path thou nobly dost decline, Or tracing word by word, uiul line by lino : A new and nobler way tbou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too ; They but preserve the ashes, thou the name, True to his sense, bnt truer to his fame.' " It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 Seiten
...Fanshaw's version of Guarina contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline. Of tracing word by word, and line l>y line. Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap... | |
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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. 
