 | Sir John Denham - English drama - 1709 - 354 pages
...like colder Climates are : In vain they Toil, fince nothing can beget A vital Spirit but a vital Heat. That fervile Path thou nobly doft decline Of tracing Word by Word, and Line by Line. Thofc 'Poems upon feveral Occafions. 1 1 j Thofe are the labour'd Births of Slavifh Brains, Not the... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1719 - 258 pages
...are : In vain they toil, ft nee nothing can beget A viral Spirit but a viral Heat. That fervilePath thou nobly 'doft decline Of tracing Word by Word, and Line by Line. Thole are the labour'd Births of ilavifli Brains, Not the Effea of Foetty, but Pains ; Cheap vulgar... | |
 | Virgin muse - 1722 - 250 pages
...colder Climates are : In vain they toil, fince nothing can beget A vital Spirit, but a vital Heat. That fervile Path thou nobly doft decline Of tracing...are the labour'd Births of flavifh Brains, Not the EfFefts of Poetry, but Painj •, Cheap vulgar Arts, whofe Narrowneft affords No Flight for TJioughts,but... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 pages
...it in the expreffion of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on his verfion of the Paftor Fido. That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line, .. . A new and nobler way thou doft purfue, To make tranflations and tranflators too : They but preferve... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 476 pages
...Take it in the expreffionofSSr John Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on hi^ verfion of the Paftor Fido. That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou dofl purfue, To make tranflations and tranflators too : They but preferve... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...it in the expreffion of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on his verfion of the Paftor Fido. That fervile path thou nobly doft decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou doft purfue, To make tranflations and tranflators too : They but prefcrve... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...it in the expreffion of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fanfhaw, on his verfion of the Paftor Fido. That fervile path thou nobly doft decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou doft purfue, To make tranflations and tranfiators too : They but preferve... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 486 pages
...like colder climates are : In vain they toil, fmce nothing can beget A vital fpiiit but a vital heat. That fervile path thou nobly doft decline Of tracing...and line by line. Thofe are the labour'd births of flavilh brains, Not the effeft of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whofe narrownefs affords No... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 236 pages
...In vain they toil, lince nothing can beget A vital fpirit but a vital heat. That fervile path them nobly doft decline Of tracing word by word, and line...by line. Thofe are the labour'd births of flavifh braini, Not the effeft of poetry, but pains ; Cheap vulgar arts, whofe narrownefs affords No flight... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 366 pages
...it in the expre(lion of Sir John Denham to Sir Richard Fan(haw, on his verf:on of th« Paftor Fido : That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. A new and nobler way thou doft purrue, To make tran(lations and tranflators too : They but preferve... | |
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That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, "• Of tracing word by word, and line by line. " Thofe are the labour'd births of... 
