 ... poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum...  The Guardian - Pàgina 309per Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1734 - 358 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1845 - 816 pàgines
...innovation in his admirable preface before the translation of the second jïineid. ' Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into...another, it will all evaporate ; and, if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum,' I confess this argument... | |
 | 1845 - 842 pàgines
...innovation in his admirable preface before the translation of the second ^Eneid. ' Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into...another, it will all evaporate ; and, if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput morluum.' I confess this argument... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pàgines
...of the whole has entirely disappeared. " Poetry is of so subtile a spirit," says Sir John Denham, " that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum." The mere verbal copyist... | |
 | John Wilson - 1846 - 360 pàgines
...innovation in his admirable preface before the translation of the second ^Eneid. ' Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into...another, it will all evaporate; and, if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum.' I confess this argument... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pàgines
...alone.' he says, ' to translate language into language, bu' poesy into poesy ; and poesy is so subtle a spirit that, in pouring out of one language into...another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added in the translation, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum; there being certain... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 pàgines
...business alone to translate language into language, but poesie into poesie, and poesie is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into...evaporate ; and if a new spirit is not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum." Those who abet the attempt to revive the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 pàgines
...admirahle preface hefore the translation of the second .Eneid. " Poetry is of so suhtile a spirit, that,in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate ; and, if a new spirit he not added in the transfer", there -.ill remain nothing hut a Caput Mortoum." I confeus this argument... | |
 | Torquato Tasso - 1865 - 714 pàgines
...business alone to translate language into language, but poetry into poetry ; and poetry is of so subtile a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into...another, it will all evaporate, and if a new spirit be not added in the transfusion, it will remain a " caput mortuum," there being certain graces and... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pàgines
..."business alone to translate language into language, but poesy into poesy ; and poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that, in pouring out of one language into...evaporate ; and if a new spirit is not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum." * Dr. Parsons has rendered in this sense... | |
 | 1866 - 672 pàgines
...business alone to translate language into language, but poesy into poesy ; and poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that, in pouring out of one language into...evaporate ; and if a new spirit is not added in the transfusion, there will remain nothing but a caput mortuum." * Dr. Parsons has rendered in this sense... | |
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