 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 sidor
...be facred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be fo ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...of his Superfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from the life, I fuppofe he has no privilege to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 sidor
...be facred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his character to be fo ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...that he receives advantage by this lopping of his fuperfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 sidor
...be facred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his charafter to be fo ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...that he receives advantage by this lopping of his fuperfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 sidor
...facred and inviolable. If the fancy of Ovid be* luxuriant, it is his charafter to be fo ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...that he receives advantage by this lopping of his fuperfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from... | |
 | Ovid - 1776 - 382 sidor
...be facred and inviolable. If the Fancy of Ovid be luxuriant, it is his Character to be fo, and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives Advantage by this lopping off his fuperfluous Branches ; but 1 rejoin, that a Tranflator has no fuch Right. When a Painter copies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 sidor
...; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from the life, I fuppofe he has no privilege to alter features and lineaments,...perhaps the face, which he has drawn, would be more exaft, if the eyes or nofe were altered ; but it is his bufmefs to make it refemble the original. In... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 362 sidor
...be facred and inviolable. If the fancy cf Ovid be luxuriant, it is his charafter to be fo ; and if I retrench it, he is no longer Ovid. It will be replied,...that he receives advantage by this lopping of his fuperfluous branches ; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies from... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 sidor
...inviolable. If the fancy of Qfjd be luiuriairt, it is his character to be fo ; and if I retrench it, be i» no longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives advantage by this lopping of hit fupcrflaoa* branches; but 1 rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copie*... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 sidor
...infioIiAle. If :h: fancy of OvW be luxuriant, it is his charter to be fo ; and if I retrench it, be I'.n longer Ovid. It will be replied, that he receives advantage by this lopping of hit fupcrfiuotu branches; but I rejoin, that a tranflator has no fuch right. When a painter copies... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 670 sidor
...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... | |
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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... 
