| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 Seiten
...Cow-ley. His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini contains a very fpritely and judicious character of a good tranflator : " That fervile path thou nobly...word, and line by line. •* Thofe are the labour'd birth of flavifh brains, ** Not the effeft of poetry, but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts, whofe narrownefs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...Cowley. His praife of Fanfhaw's verfion of Guarini contains a very fpritely .and judicious character of a, good tranflator : " That fervile path thou nobly...tracing word by word, and line by line. " Thofe are the labour1 d birth of flavilh brains, " Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts, whofe... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 626 Seiten
...it in the expreffion of Sir John 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... | |
| John Dryden - 1811 - 628 Seiten
...in the expreffion of Sir John 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... | |
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