 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...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 Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...PASTOR FIDO : That servile path thou noblydost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations,...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 - 674 pages
...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,...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 Bell - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...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 - Biography - 1802 - 686 pages
...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 - 716 pages
...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...preserve the ashes, thou the flame, " True to his tense, bat truer to his fame." The excellence of these lines Is greater, as the truth which they contain... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
..." 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...flame, " True to his sense, but truer to his fame. The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that time generally... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...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...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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...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...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thonghts, hut poorly sticks at words.. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations and translators too : They but preservfl the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame : Fording his current,... | |
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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 fame. 
