The translation of poetry into poetry, as Coleridge said, is difficult because the translator must give brilliancy without the warmth of original conception, from which such brilliancy would follow of its own accord.
Morley discusses the challenges of translating poetry, emphasizing the loss of original creativity in the process.
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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
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