 | George Crabb - 1854 - 546 pagina’s
...but lie 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 word by word, and line by line. Тише are the Inbour'd births nfalaoish brains, Not the effect of poetry but рапы.— I) к... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...lines of Sir John Denham, addressed to Sir Kichard Fanshawe, in 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. It is not merely that... | |
 | 1858 - 592 pagina’s
...interpreting single words,' words,' gives the same praise to Fanshawe, whom he addresses thus, — 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, loo : They but preserve... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 pagina’s
...counting lines and interpreting single words," gives the same praise to Fanshawe, whom he addresses thus : "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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pagina’s
...interpreting single words," gives the same praise to Sir Richard Fanshawe, whom he addresses thus : 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 - 1863 - 546 pagina’s
...but he who U elavùk le bound and feUered In every роЫbteform; That servile path thou nobly dort decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the Inbour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry but paina — DKNIIAM. PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 pagina’s
...version of 'Guarini' contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : — " That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing...pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords Mo flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pagina’s
...of Sir Johu Denham to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido : — " Tlint servlle path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou doat pursue, To make. translations and translators too : They but preserve... | |
 | 1868 - 170 pagina’s
...In reference to Fanshawe's version of Guarini, Sir John Denham writes : — That servile path them nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word and line by line, Those are the laboured birth of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains, Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...Parish Register. Some vip'rous critic may bereave Th' opinion of thy work for some defect. DANIEL. That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. SIR J. DENHAM. Your intention hold. As fire these drossy rhymes to purify. Or as elixir to change them... | |
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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. 
