While the translator has sought to produce faithfully the metre, poetry and sentiment of the originals, he has attempted no slavishly literal reproduction.
This design is founded upon the Francis I style of architecture, though it by no means slavishly follows it.
The wall-paper makers still copy, slavishly from Europe and Japan, fortunately if they do not spoil in copying, in spite of the occasional production of a wall-paper which an artist has succeeded in.
But Dunash and others, who imitated him, did not slavishly adhere to their Arab pattern, nor adopt its unnatural meter, but they selected its beauties and imitated them.
His translations, however, show his pedantic character; they are absolutely literal and clumsy; they slavishly follow the Arabic original, and do violence to the Hebrew language.
Slavishly to copy, or systematically to imitate, are evils scarcely less reprehensible than to neglect them altogether; but frequent study of the great masters in any art is indispensable to those who would excel.
He should learn to paint according to his own ideas, not to slavishly copy the models of old artists.
But in the last resort he simply ceased to believe in himself, and doggedly, slavishly sought arguments in all directions, fumbling for them, as though someone were forcing and drawing him to it.
Now the common popular criticism upon the Evening Prayer of the Church is that it repeats too slavishly the wording of the Morning Prayer.
As a Church we have always tied ourselves too slavishly to English precedent.
The good fear him lovingly, the middle sort love him fearfully, and only the wicked man fears him slavishly without love.
He is the most slavishly submissive, though envious to those that are in better place than himself; and knows the art of words so well that (for shrouding dishonesty under a fair pretext) he seems to preserve mud in crystal.
Xenajas or Philoxenus of Mabug, a new slavishly literal translation of the New Testament.
According to the opinion of all these men, these questions do not even exist, and every person, no matter how he himself may look upon war, must in this respect slavishly submit to the demands of the government.
I can find no evidence for the reiterated[6] statement that Schaldemose is throughout his translation slavishly indebted to Ettmüller.
In his translation Ettmüller followed in the steps of Kemble[2], but he was not slavishly dependent upon him.
But the translator does not depend slavishly upon his text.
They conveyed injunctions which were always slavishly obeyed.
Either the Gothic or the Renaissance style is to be slavishly imitated.
Of books directly inspired by Sterne, or following more or less slavishly his guidance, a considerable proportion has undoubtedly been consigned to merited oblivion.
Lessing was too original a mind, and at the time when “Minna” was written, too complete and mature an artist to follow another slavishly or obviously, except avowedly under certain conditions and with particular purpose.
He was not sure enough of himself in music to trust to his own personal feelings, and so he slavishly followed the interpretations of Wagner given by the Kapellmeisters, and the licensees of Bayreuth.
The Pope was a small Italian prince now slavishly subservient to the Emperor: Luther had defied a greater Sovereign Pontiff than he; why should Clement, a degenerate scion of the mercantile Medicis, dare to dictate to England and her King?
But Dinkey, followed by a slavishlyadoring brindle mule, declined to be rounded up.
Humbly she took the rear; slavishly she copied the other horses; closely she clung to camp.
He hated to hear that one man could be so slavishly dependent on another.
Suddenly Minnie caught sight of Edwin through the doorway, flushed red, had the air of slavishly apologising to the unapproachable male for having disturbed him by her insect-woes, and vanished.
The tendency at the present time is to slavishly copy examples of other periods.
Mr. Eve, without slavishly copying, originally appears to have modelled his work upon the admirable designs and ideas of the "little masters" of German art in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
She studied the science of surprise, and applied it to the labour of dressing herself in such a way as to make him slavishlyregard her as the most wonderful being on earth.
I have never listened slavishly for the cuckoo, but many years ago I had as foolish a superstition about farthings.
And to none, to none on earth or in the heavens, shall I subject myself so slavishly as to deny for him my true, profoundest nature.
In portraying these, the artists and sculptors do not alwaysslavishly follow tradition or uniformity.
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