 | Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - 1749 - 296 lehte
...tranflating is no eafy artFor though materials have long fince been foundi Yet both your fency, and your hands are bound ; And by improving what was writ before,...judgment, more. The foil intended for Pierian feeds IVfufl be well purg'd from rank pedantic weeds, Apollo Harts, and all Pamaffus fhakc?, At the rude... | |
 | Horace - 1760 - 568 lehte
...For ibo' Materials have long fince been found, Tet both your Fancy and your Hands are bound ; JÎnd by improving what was writ before, Invention labours lefs> but Judgment more. HowHowever, a Tranflator in Profe is not near fo much corrfin'd as a Tranflator in Verfe, efpecially... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1788 - 586 lehte
...truncation is no eafy art, For tho' materials have long fince been found, Yet both your fancy, and your hands are bound ; And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours lefs, but judgment, more.— Each poet with a different talent writes, One praifes, one inftructs, another bites. Horace did ne'er... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 248 lehte
...tranflation is no eafy art. For though materials have long fmce been found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound ; And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours lefs, but judgment more. The foij intended for Pierian feeds Muft be well purg'd from rank pedantic weeds. Apollo ftarts, and all... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 lehte
...fmce been found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound; And by improving what was writ befo?e, bride her words of weeds. Apollo ftarts, and all ParnalTus makes, At the rude rumbling Baralipton makes. For none have... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...art. For tho' materials have long lince been found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound j And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours...judgment more. The foil intended for Pierian feeds M uft be well purg'd from rank pedantic weeds. ')',in Sheffield duke of Buckinghamlhirt, Apoll» Inftruct... | |
 | James Roach - 1794 - 260 lehte
...tranflation is no eafy art. For though materials have long fir.ce been found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound ; And by improving what was writ before,...for Pierian feeds , Muft be well purg'd from rank pidantic weeds Apollo ftartSj and all Parnaflus (hakes, At the rude rumbling Baralipton makes. For... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 lehte
...art . Tur though materials have long fince befn found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound j And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours lefs, but judgment more. hearfe, 414 The firft great work (a talk pcrform'd by few) Is, that ynurfclf may to yourfelf be true... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 lehte
...tranuation is no eafy art. For though materials have long fincc been found, Yet both your fancy and your hands are bound , And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours lefs, but judgment more, The fui! intended for Pierian feeds Muft be v ell purg'd from rank pedantic weeds. Apollo ftarts, and all... | |
 | 1797 - 550 lehte
...translation is no eafy art : For tho' materials have long iince been found, Yet both your fancy, and your hands are bound ; And by improving what was writ before, ' Invention labours lefs, but judgment more.' Dryden judicioufly remarks, that ' a tranflator is to make his author appear as charming as poffibly... | |
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Tis true, composing is the nobler part, But good translation is no easy art : For tho' materials have long since been found, Yet both your fancy, and your hands are bound , And by improving what was writ before, Invention labours less, but judgment more. 
