 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 Seiten
...is his character to be so ; and, if I retrench it, he IB no longer Ovid. It will be replied that be receives advantage by this lopping of his superfluous branches ; but I rejoin that a translator hag no such right. When a painter copies from the life, I suppose he has no privilege to alter features... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 Seiten
...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, 'tis his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied...face which he has drawn would be more exact, if the eyes or nose were altered; but 'tis his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 516 Seiten
...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...face, which he has drawn, would be more exact, if the eyes or nose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 524 Seiten
...if I retrench it, he ia no longer Ovid. It will bo replied that he receives advantage by tliilopping of his superfluous branches ; but I rejoin that a...face which he has drawn would be more exact if the eyes <>r iiose were altered ; but it is his business to make it resemble the original." Pope has rendered... | |
 | 1895 - 872 Seiten
...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied that he receives advantage by this lopping of uis superfluous branches, but I rejoin that a translator has no such right. When a painter copies from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 Seiten
...inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, 'tis his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is 15 no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives...privilege to alter features and lineaments, under preso tence that his picture will look better : perhaps the face which he has drawn would be more exact,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 Seiten
...inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, 'tis his character to be so; and if I retrench it, he is 15 no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives...privilege to alter features and lineaments, under pre20 tence that his picture will look better : perhaps the face which he has drawn would be more exact,... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1908 - 440 Seiten
...Preface to the translation of the Second Aenciil. luxuriant, 'tis his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...face which he has drawn would be more exact, if the eyes or nose were altered ; but 'tis his business to make it resemble the original. In two cases only... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 Seiten
...be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, 't is his character to be so ; and if I rl; The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl ; Ixion seems no more his pretense that his picture will look better ; perhaps the face which he has drawn would be more exact,... | |
 | Thomas Herbert Warren - 1909 - 344 Seiten
...so crabbed and condensed. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied...from the life, I suppose he has no privilege to alter his features and lineaments under pretence that his picture will look better, perhaps the face which... | |
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The sense of an author, generally speaking, is to be sacred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be so ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives advantage by this lopping of... 
