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. The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and ... - Pagina 239 door Edmund Waller - 1857 Volledige weergave -
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