 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.  Works - Сторінка 21автори: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 стор.
...poetry, but 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...time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performance ; the numbers are musical, and the... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1813 - 466 стор.
...Appendix, NO. 2. f * 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. DEMI AM to SIR R. FAXSHAW, BUT it was to Dryden that poetical translation owed a complete emancipation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 стор.
...Sclent, lib. 3. " Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue,...time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performance : the numbers are musical, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 стор.
...pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at word*. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue. To make translations...; thou the flame ; True to his sense, but truer to bis fame." The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 стор.
...poetry, but 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...time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performance : the numbers are musical, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 стор.
...but pains ; " Cheap vulgar arts, whose na'rowness affords " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue,...ashes, thou the flame ; " True to his sense, but truer !o his fame." The excellence of these ines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 стор.
...Pastor Eido : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 стор.
...vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new arid nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations...time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performance : the numbers are musical, and the... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 446 стор.
...subject of his poem is tlie expedition tor the discovery of the East Indies. He excelled in description " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations,...flame ; True to his sense, but truer to his fame." His version of the " Lusiad" is not so spirited a performance that of the " Pastor Fido." See Class... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 стор.
...poetry, but 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...time generally known. His poem on the Death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performance : the numbers are musical, and the... | |
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