 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 páginas
...words, or to be confined to his fenfe, but only to let him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it)... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 páginas
...words, or to be confined to his fenfe, but only to fet him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it)... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 páginas
...words, or to be confin'd to his fenfc. but only to let him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of VoL. 111. P rendering rendering authors... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 páginas
...words, or to be confin'd to his fenfe, but only to fet him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of VoL. III. P rendering rendering authors... | |
 | Ovid - 1776 - 382 páginas
...Words, or to be confined to his Senfe, but only to fet him as a Pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that Author would have done, had he lived in our Age, and in our Country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering Authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it)... | |
 | William King - 1776 - 326 páginas
...words, or "be confined to his fenfe, but only to fet him as a pattern, and ** to write as he fuppofes that Author would have done, had •* he lived in our age and in our country. But he dares not fay ** that Sir John Denham t , or Mr. Cowley, have carried this Liber" tine way,... | |
 | William King - 1776 - 330 páginas
...or '• be confined to his fenfe, but only to fet him as a pattern, and *' fo writs as he fuppofes that Author would have done, had •« he lived in our age and in our country. But he dares not fay •« that Sir John Dcuham t, or Mr. Cowley, have carried this Liber*• tine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 366 páginas
...words, or to be confined to his fenfe ; but only to fet him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr Cowley calls it)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 páginas
...confined to his fenfe ; but only to fet him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author wonhi have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have earned this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr Cowley calls it)... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 362 páginas
...words, or to be confined to his fenfe; but only to fet him as a pattern, and to write, as he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls,... | |
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I take imitation of an author, in their sense, to be an endeavour of a later poet to write like one who has written before him on the same subject; that is, not to translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern,... 
