 No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words, 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.  Works - Strona 21autor: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - Liczba stron: 376
...(1647) : '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...Flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.' In 1656, the year in which Cowley published his Pindarique Odes, Denham restated the argument in the... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - Liczba stron: 374
...(1647) : '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...Flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.' In 1656, the year in which Cowley published his Pindarique Odes, Denham restated the argument in the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - Liczba stron: 1122
...Pastor Fido : 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...the flame. True to his sense, but truer to his fame. T ia almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time ; for the Latin (a moat severe... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - Liczba stron: 792
...of Quarini : — That servile way thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. From such translations as Cowley's of Pindar'sOdes, where 'the customs and ceremonies of ancient Greece... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1911 - Liczba stron: 578
...brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flights for thoughts, but poorly sticks at words. A new and...translators too. They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame : Fording his current where thou find'st it low, Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow ; Wisely... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - Liczba stron: 346
...Pastor Fido : — 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...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. 'Tis almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin (a most severe... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1918 - Liczba stron: 344
...tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the laboured births of slavish brains, Not the effects of poetry, but pains; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. "Classicism," I hear you say. "Age of Pope: finished couplet, balanced antithesis — the whole armoury... | |
 | Flora Ross Amos - 1920 - Liczba stron: 212
...Denham, in his lines on Fanshaw's translation of Guarini, had already approved of a similar method : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Feeding his current, where thou find'st it low Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow; Wisely... | |
 | Flora Ross Amos - 1920 - Liczba stron: 212
...Fanshaw's translation of Guarini, had already approved of a similar method: A new and nobler way them dost pursue To make translations and translators too....the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Feeding his current, where thou find'st it low Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow; Wisely... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1924 - Liczba stron: 324
...tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the laboured births of slavish brains, Not the effects of poetry, but pains; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. 'Classicism,' I hear you say. 'Age of Pope: finished couplet, balanced antithesis — the whole armoury... | |
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