...than the words themselves, without reference to that peculiar order. Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The...

...than the words themselves, without reference to that peculiar order. Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The...

...mind, with the mind and inspired mood, which dictated the original work. Shelley himself has said, " It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible,...that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another, the creations of a poet." This...

...spirit of each drama. Shelley makes the following remark in reference to poetical translations : " It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible, that you might discover the principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations...

...than the words themselves, without reference to that peculiar order. Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The...

...than the words themselves, without reference to that peculiar order. Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The...

...same idea, when showing the impossibility of translating poetry from one language into another : ' It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible,...that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour.' Still something of this kind must be attempted if we wish to explain to others the...

...and the taller giant carry up towards heaven a larger bulk and more varied domains. The traveller, even if he come directly from wondering at Mont Blanc...language into another the creations of a poet." Thus write* a great poet, — Shelley, in his beautiful Defence of Poetry. But have we not in modern tongues...

...Blanc in its sublime presence, will yet stand with earnest delight before the majesty of the Yungfruu and the Eigher. But it is time to speak of Dante in...writes a great poet, — Shelley, in his beautiful Defence of Poetry. But have we not in modem tongues the creations of Homer, and of Plato, who Shelley,...

...than the words themselves, without reference to that peculiar order. Hence the vanity of translation ; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The...