 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 574
...assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into...very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely ; and is I think a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes. Monsieur Boileau... | |
 | La Vergne Belden Stevens - 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 218
...indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montagu, speakiug of a Turkish love-song, " pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively...image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eye." — Leigh Hunt. Large eyes have been extolled since the origin of poetry. Mohammedan heaven is... | |
 | 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...stag-eyed," says Lady Wortley Montague, speaking of a Turkish love-song, " pleases me exlremely ; arid I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes." We lose in depth of expression, when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into...very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely ; and is I think a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes. Monsieur Boileau... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...stag-ey'd (though the sound is not very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely; and is I think a very lively image of the, fire and indifference...mistress's eyes. Monsieur Boileau has very justly observed, we are never to judge of the elevation of an expression in an ancient author by the sound it carries... | |
 | Carolyn A. Barros, Johanna M. Smith - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion, (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into...indifference in his mistress's eyes. — Monsieur Boilean61 has very justly observed, that we are never to judge of the elevation of an expression in... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...indifferent. " The epithet of stag-eyed," says Lady Wortley Montague, speaking of a Turkish love-song, " pleases me extremely ; and I think it a very lively...the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes." We lose in depth of expression, when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer... | |
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I have taken abundance of pains to get these verses in a literal translation; and if you were acquainted with my interpreters, I might spare myself the trouble of assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion... 
