 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 pagina’s
...Fanshaw's veision 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, ami line by line. " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, " Not the effect of poetry, but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 pagina’s
...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...slavish brains. Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; * It is remarkable that Johnson should not have recollecteil, that this image is to be found in Bacon.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pagina’s
...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...narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too. They... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pagina’s
...contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator: " That servile path thou imhly dost decline, Of tracing word by word and line by...Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight fur thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pagina’s
...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...narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words, A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too, They... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pagina’s
...Guarini contains a Tery sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thnu nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word and line...narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words, A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too, They... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pagina’s
...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a goqd translator: That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word and line by line. Those are the lahour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...it in the expression of Sir John Denham, to Sir Richard Panshaw, on his version of the 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, and translators too : They but preserve... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pagina’s
...but he is still a free agent ; but he who is slavish is bound and fettered in every possible form ; That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing...slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry but pains. DENHAM. PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE, WORK. When we speak of any thing as resulting from any specified operation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pagina’s
...thon nobly dost decline, Of tracinp word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour'd birth ol slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains...narrowness affords . No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thoudost pursue, To make translations and. translators too. They... | |
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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. 
