 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.  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 78by Samuel Johnson - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 328 pages
...the afhes, thou " the flame, " True to his fenfe, but truer to his " fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the truth which they contain...generally, known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his laft, and, among his fhorter works, his beft performance : the num* :bers are mufical, and the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...preferve the afhes, thou the flame, ** True to his fcnfe, but truer to his fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the truth which they contain...generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his lafti arid, among his fhorter works, his beft performance : the numbers are mufical, and the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...preferve the afhes, thou the flame, " True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the truth which they contain...generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his laft, and, among his ihorter works, his beft performance : the numbers are mufical, and the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the trutlx which they contain was not at that time generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was hislaft, and, among his fhorter works, his beft performance: the numbers are mufical, and the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...preferve the afhes; thou the flame, " True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the truth which they contain...generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his laft, and, among his fhorter works, his beft performance : the numbers are mufical, and the thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...preferve the ames, thou the flame, " True to his fenfe, but truer to his fame." The excellence of thefe lines is greater, as the truth which they contain...generally known. His poem on the death of Cowley was his laft, and, among his fhorter works, his beft performance : performance : the numbers are mufical, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 - 1800 - 674 pages
...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 Bell - 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,... | |
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