 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1827 - 674 pages
...some may desire and expect ; let them consider that" God's altar needs not our polishings; for wee have respected rather a plain translation, than to...smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and soe have attended conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...elegant as some may desire and expect, let them consider, that God's altar needs not our polishings, for we have respected rather a plain translation, than...smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and so have attended to conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry.' The character... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 412 pages
...as some may desire and expect, let them consider that God's altar needs not our polishings ; for wee have respected rather a plain translation, than to...smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and so have attended to conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 412 pages
...as some may desire and expect, let them consider that God's altar needs not our polishings ; for wee have respected rather a plain translation, than to...smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and so have attended to conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating... | |
 | Samuel Wilton Rix - 1837 - 278 pages
...that their versification was, by no means, free from imperfections. " We have respected," said they, " rather a plain translation, than to smooth our verses...rather than elegance, fidelity rather than ingenuity; that so we may sing in Zion the Lord's songs of praise, according unto his own will, until he bid us... | |
 | Samuel Wilton RIX - 1837 - 280 pages
...that their versification was, by no means, free from imperfections. " We have respected," said they, " rather a plain translation, than to smooth our verses...rather than elegance, fidelity rather than ingenuity ; that so we may sing in Zion the Lord's songs of praise, according unto his own will, until he bid... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 544 pages
...elegant as some may desire and expect, let them consider that God's altar needs not our polishing ; for we have respected rather a plain translation than...smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and so have attended to conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating... | |
 | Convers Francis - Indians of North America - 1840 - 384 pages
...let them consider that God's altar needs not our pollishings ; for wee have respected rather a plaine translation, than to smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase, and soe have attended conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry, in translating... | |
 | Clergy - 1842 - 460 pages
...excuse which our translators themselves do oflfer us, when they soy, ' II the verses are not always so elegant as some desire or expect, let them consider,...any paraphrase. We have attended conscience rather th,m elegance, fidelity rather that ingenuity ; that so we may sing in Zion (he Lord's songs of praise... | |
 | American education society - 1842 - 476 pages
...so elegant as some desire or expect, let them consider, that God's altar needs not our polishings; we have respected rather a plain translation, than...attended conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather that ingenuity ; that so we may sing in Zion the Lord's songs of praise according unto his own will,... | |
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For we have respected rather a plain translation than to smooth our verses with the sweetness of any paraphrase: and so have attended conscience rather than elegance, fidelity rather than poetry... 
