...version 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, and line by line. Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar...

...pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose 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.17 They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame." The...

...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...pursue, To make translations and translators too. It is not merely that this lady translator (believe it ye who are credulous overmuch) suppresses ;...

...Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly sticks at words. 20 A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame : Fording his current, where thou find'st it low, Let'st in thine own to make it rise and flow ; Wisely...

...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...

...painB; Cheap vulirar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight fur thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations...ashes; thou the flame. True to his sense, but truer to ills fame. The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that...

...Madrid in 1600. During this various experience, he always cultivated the MUSIK пшпхисfiore.4, and he seems to have thought that if Horace was to...Fanshawe's Horace when tested by to-day's standard. His ¿Кциат memento* — may be taken as a fair specimen : " Keep still an equal mind, not sunk With...

...it in the expression of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Faushaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido: That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing...translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the name, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and...

...the drudgery of counting lines and interpreting single words," gives the same praise to Sir Richard Fanshawe, whom he addresses thus : That servile path...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Dryden said, all the translations of the old school "want to be translated into English;" and verbal...

...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...translators too. They but preserve the ashes, thou the name, True to his sense, but truer to his fame." The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth...