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" 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. "
Essays Aesthetical - Page 136
by George Henry Calvert - 1875 - 264 pages
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...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...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 368 pages
...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...
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The Monthly chronicle; a national journal, Volume 5

1840 - 582 pages
...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...
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Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller - 1843 - 316 pages
...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...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...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...
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The works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by mrs. Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 578 pages
...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...
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Oxford Essays, Volume 1

1855 - 408 pages
...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...
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art ..., Volume 1

1868 - 808 pages
...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...
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Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art ..., Volume 1

1868 - 820 pages
...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,...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley; Essays, Letters from Abroad ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 584 pages
...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...
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