 | Lady Anne Harrison Fanshawe - 1907 - 617 pagina’s
...certainly less than in the later translations. The following are the best of Denham's lines : — " 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... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908
...Sir John Denham in the well-known verses prefixed to Fanshawe's version of the Pastor Fido (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 and Translators too: They but preserve... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908
...Sir John Denham in the well-known verses prefixed to Fanshawe's version of the Pastor Fido (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 and Translators too: They but preserve... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1054 pagina’s
...Sir John Uenham to Sir Richard Fanshawe, on his version of the Pastor Fido : That servile path thon nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A ne,w and nobler way thou doet pursue, To make translations and translators too : They but preserve... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 319 pagina’s
...in the expression of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanshaw, 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 327 pagina’s
...misled, logically and even chronologically. For an example, take these lines, upon a certain translator: That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of 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... | |
 | Flora Ross Amos - 1920 - 184 pagina’s
...to his Destruction of Troy, "to affect being Fidus Interpres," and again in his lines to Fanshaw.: That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labored births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry but pains; Cheap, vulgar arts, whose narrowness... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1924 - 307 pagina’s
...misled, logically and even chronologically. For an example, take these lines, upon a certain translator: That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of 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... | |
 | T. R. Steiner - 1975 - 159 pagina’s
...it in the expression of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanshaw, 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... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 580 pagina’s
...fate, / That few, but such as cannot write, translate. John Denham, 1648, To Richard Fanshaw' 13:17 That servile path thou nobly do'st decline, / Of tracing Word by Word, and Line by Line. / A new and nobler way thou do'st pursue, / To make Translations and Translators too: / They but preserve... | |
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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. 
