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
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 стор.
...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... | |
| 1830 - 824 стор.
...poetry, but pains ; Cheap, vulgar acts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To...flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame." In these opinions we most cordially concur. In the present case, however, Dr. Bowring was justified... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 стор.
...brains, Nv»t the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap Tulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flieht it was never till now recommended by such a blaze...melody. The vigorous contraction of some thought«, th ashed ; thou the name, True to hia sense, but truer to his fame. The excellence of these lines is greater,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 стор.
...line by line. Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pain*. բ@ , WILLIAM CHAMBEULATNE. They but proem the a*ha, thou (he flame, True to A« sente, lui truer to hit... | |
| John Frost - 1846 - 332 стор.
...of the original, of which Sir John Denham thus speaks, after having censured servile translations : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations...the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. Sir Richard translated into Latin verse that beautiful modern pastoral Fletcher's " Faithful Shepherdess... | |
| John Wilson - 1846 - 360 стор.
...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,...ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer 10 his fame.' "It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and well, at the same time; for the Latin... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 стор.
...path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour'd births nd solemn tunes * trick'd and frounc'd as she was...the gust hath blown his fill, Ending on the rustlin pruerrt tilt aaha, thou tttejlame, True to hit seme, l,ut li-uer to hi* fame. The two last lines are... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 стор.
...path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour'd births all stand as fair In all good men's opinions as now: Nor can my actions, though thon tJve flame, True to his sense, but truer to hi» fame. The two last lines are very happily conceived... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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 - 1854 - 356 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...flame ; True to his sense, but truer to his fame." i The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that time generally... | |
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