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Quotes from To Sir Richard Fanshaw — John Denham

1615–1669 Ireland

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Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.

To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648)

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ
Attempt translation.

To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648)

That servile path thou nobly dost decline
Of tracing word by word, and line by line;
A new and nobler way thou dost pursue
To make translations, and translators too;
They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame,
True to his sense, but truer to his fame.

To Sir Richard Fanshaw (1648)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Denham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.