 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 the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his...  The Quarterly Review - Stranica 339uredio/la - 1858Potpun prikaz - O ovoj knjizi
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Broj stranica: 662
...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...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin, a most severe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Broj stranica: 674
...Denham, to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the PASTOR FIDO : That servile path thou noblydost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin, a most severe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Broj stranica: 714
...Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affcrJs " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, " To make translations...flame, ' , " True to his sense, but truer to his fame." ., • , The excellence of these lines Is greater, as the truth whidi they contain was not at that... | |
 | John Bell - 1800 - Broj stranica: 440
...affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly sticks at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue 21 To make translations and translators too. They but...the flame, True to his sense but truer to his fame i Fording his current, where thou find'st it low 15 Lett'st in thine own to make it rise and flow,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1802 - Broj stranica: 686
...contrasting his manner of translating with that of the herd of servile writers of that class, he says, They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame ; True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Such lines gave him some rightful claim to Pope's epithet of " majestic Denham ;" and doubtless prepared... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Broj stranica: 716
...of Guarini, containi a very, sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " That jervile path thou nobly dost decline,/ " OF tracing word by word, and line by line, 1 ' Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, '. " Not the effect of poetry, but pains; " Cheap... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - Broj stranica: 336
...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 word by word, and line by line. " Those are the labour'd birth of 'lavish brair.s, " Not the effect of poetry, but pains; " Cheap vulgar... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - Broj stranica: 490
...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...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin (a most severe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Broj stranica: 496
...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...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time ; for the Latin (a most severe... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - Broj stranica: 490
...like colder climates are : In vain they toil, since nothing can beget A vital spirit but a vital heat. That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : Those are the labour' d births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry but pains ; Cheap vulgar... | |
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