...eipedition for the discovery of the East Indies. He excelled in description " A new and nobler way tbou dost pursue To make translations, and translators...They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame ; True to bu sense, but truer to hU fame." His version of the " Lusiad" is not so spirited a performance as that...

...pains; Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight fur thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too, They bat preserve the ashes; thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame." The excellence of...

...it in the expression of Sir John Denham, to Sir Richard Panshaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido : That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing...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...

...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a goqd translator: That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word and line by line. Those are the lahour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar...

...Guarini contains a Tery sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thnu 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...

...narrowness affords . No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words. A new and nobler way thoudost pursue, To make translations and. translators too....They but preserve the ashes ; thou the flame, True in his sense, but truer to his fame. The excellence of these lines IS greater, as the truth which they...

...but he is still a free agent ; but he who is slavish is bound and fettered in every possible form ; 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. DENHAM. PRODUCTION,...

...alley up and down. Id. Ambassadors should not be held the tracers of a plot of such malice. Howtl. That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. These as a line their long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. Milton. The laboured...

...Guarini's Pastor Fido, has given the following as the characteristics of a judicious translator : — " That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains, Not the eifert of poetry, but pains ; Cheap, vulgar...

...translators, he says — " Secure of fame, tbou justly dost esteem Less honour to create than to redeem ; That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line." And, " That master's hand, which to the life can trace The air, the line, the features, of the face,...