...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very spritely and judicious character of a good translator : " 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 ; * It is...

...path thou nobly dost decline, Or tracing word by word, uiul line by lino : A new and nobler way tbou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too ; They but preserve the ashes, thou the name, True to his sense, bnt truer to his fame.' " It is almost impossible to translate verbally, and...

...Fanshaw's version of Guarina contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline. Of tracing word by word, and line l>y line. Those are the labour'd birth of slavish brains, Not the effect of poetry, but pains ; Cheap...

...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " 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 ; " Cheap...

...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : 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 ; Cheap vulgar...

...Fanshaw's veision of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : " That servile path thou nobly dost decline, " Of tracing word by word, ami line by line. " Those are the labour'd births of slavish brains, " Not the effect of 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 make translations and translators too. .'• !..• j They but preserve the ashes; thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame....

...like colder climates are : In vain they toil, since nothing can beget A vital spirit but a vital heat. 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; Cheap vulgar arts,...

...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...flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame." The excellence of these lines is greater, as the truth which they contain was not at that time generally...

...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...