...of the whole has entirely disappeared. " Poetry is of so subtile a spirit," says Sir John Denbam, " 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...

...tranfl?.te language " into language, but poelic into puefie, and pociie is of fo ftibtle a fpirit, that in pouring out of one language into another it will all evaporate, and if я new fpirit is not added in the transruficn, there will remain nothing but a caf>ui mmtyum." Our...