 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to Epic bays, Nor lofty M;iro stoop to Lyric lays. Examine how your humor is inclin'd, ht to taste of pain ; And purple tyrants vainly groan...before, mipiticd and ak»f. When first thy Sire to send ; United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond ; Your thoughts, your words,... | |
 | 1830 - 312 Seiten
...can give to faithful translation the grace of original composition. This d " Examine how your humour is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind ; Then seek a writer who your way does bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend." — LORD ItoscojiMON.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to Epic bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to Lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind ; Then seek...bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond : oo Your thoughts, your words,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to Epic bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to Lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind ; Then seek...bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond : oo Your thoughts, your words,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to Epic bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to Lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind; Then seek...bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond : Your thoughts , your words... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 636 Seiten
...lloscommon had given to his generation, in the Essay on Translated Verse : " Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind, Then seek a poet, who, your way docs bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend." A morose, solitary kind of man, with a head... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to epic bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind; Then seek...bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond; Your thoughts, your words,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 320 Seiten
...judicious, especially that which advises any one who proposes to occupy himself with translation — " To seek a poet who your way does bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend." He endeavoured to exemplify his precepts by his own practice, translating two or three of Horace's... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 Seiten
...lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind ; Then sock a poet who your way does bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond ; Your thoughts, your words,... | |
 | 1893 - 386 Seiten
...ne'er aspire to epic bays, Nor lofty Maro stoop to lyric lays. Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind; Then seek...bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. United by this sympathetic bond, You grow familiar, intimate, and fond; Your thoughts, your words,... | |
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Examine how your humour is inclin'd, And which the ruling passion of your mind; Then seek a poet who your way does bend, And choose an author as you choose a friend. 
