 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 - Página 21por Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 páginas
...but pains ; M Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affcrJs " No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. " A new and nobler way thou dost pursue,...excellence of these lines Is greater, as the truth whidi they contain was not at that time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...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,...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 - 1806 - 336 páginas
...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,...time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter works, his best performauce : the numbers are musical, and the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 páginas
...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 - 1808 - 490 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...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,...they contain was not at that time generally known. j His poem on the death of Cowley was his last, and, among his shorter Works, his best performance... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight tor thoughts, but poorly sticks at words. A new and nobler...ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but 'truer to kis fame. Fording his current, where thou And'st it low, Let'st in thine own to makeit rise and Sow... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 páginas
...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,...flame, True to his sense, but' truer to his fame. M « I hare not endeavoured to give a verbal translation, so neither have I indulged myself in a nsk... | |
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