 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 σελίδες
...which is poetical. Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 368 σελίδες
...which is poetical. Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in... | |
 | Dorothy Martin - 1928 - 124 σελίδες
...which is poetical. Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in... | |
 | Brian Boyd - 1991 - 838 σελίδες
...Johnson remarked: "Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in... | |
 | John Sallis - 2002 - 144 σελίδες
...He continues: "Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a presentation of the true. But whereas one might take spoken or wrieten words as comprising this sensible... | |
 | Alfred Chilton Pearson - 1922 - 60 σελίδες
...from Dr Johnson : "poetry indeed cannot be translated, and therefore it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as 1 Horace, AP 70-72 mult a renascentur quae iam cecidere cadentque \ quae nunc... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1922 - 522 σελίδες
...which is poetical. Poetry, indeed, can not be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry can not be preserved... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1927 - 272 σελίδες
...where Johson says, "Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated: and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation." (Edition of Augustine Birrell, 1904, IV, 44.) 37.... | |
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Poetry, indeed cannot be translated ; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language, if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry... 
