 | English poets - 1790 - 326 páginas
...words, or be confined to his " fenfe, but only to fet him as a pattern, and " to write as he1 fuppofes that Author would have " done, had he lived in our age and in our coun" try. But he dares not fay that Sir John Den" ham*, or Mr. Cowley, have carried this Liber" tine... | |
 | 1793 - 806 páginas
...words, or to be confined to hr, 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 páginas
...word:, or to be confined to his fcnfe, but only tb fet him as a, pattern, and to write a* he fuppofes that author would have done, had he lived in our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not fay, that cither of them have carried this li. bertine way of tendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 páginas
...words, or to be confined to his fenfc, 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 nut fay, that cither of them have carried this libertine way of tendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 712 páginas
...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived...our age, and in our country. Yet I dare not say that eithei of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it) so far... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 páginas
...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived...age,* and in our country. Yet I dare not say that eithei of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Cowley calls it) so far... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 496 páginas
...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, hut only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as lie supposes that author would have done, had he lived...dare not say, that either of them have carried this libertine M ay of rendering authors (as Mr Cow ley calls it) so far as my definition reaches; for,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 490 páginas
...translate his words, or to be confined to his sense, but only to set him as a pattern, and to write, as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived...dare not say, that either of them have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr Cowley calls it) so far as my definition reaches ; for, in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 612 páginas
...have carried this libertine way of rendering authors (as Mr. Con-ley calls it) so far as my definition reaches. For in the Pindaric Odes, the customs and...ceremonies of ancient Greece are still preserved. But 1 know not what mischief ra»y arise hereafter from the example of such an innovation, when writers... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 páginas
...translate his words, or be confined to hi« sense, but only to -set him as a pattern, and to write as he supposes that author would have done, had he lived in our age and in our country. But he dares not say tliat sir John Denham*, or Mr. Cowley, have carried this libertin way, as the... | |
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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,... 
