On Translating Homer: Last Words. A Lecture Given at OxfordLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 69 páginas |
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... in the English and in the Virgilian hexameter ; that in the first , the accent and the long syllable ( or what has to do duty as such ) coincide , in the D 3 LAST WORDS . 37 the vices of the ballad-style in the weak ...
... in the English and in the Virgilian hexameter ; that in the first , the accent and the long syllable ( or what has to do duty as such ) coincide , in the D 3 LAST WORDS . 37 the vices of the ballad-style in the weak ...
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... accent of the old Greeks and Romans resembled our accent only in name , in reality was essentially different ; ' that our English reading of Homer and Virgil has in itself no meaning ; ' and that ' accent has nothing to do with the ...
... accent of the old Greeks and Romans resembled our accent only in name , in reality was essentially different ; ' that our English reading of Homer and Virgil has in itself no meaning ; ' and that ' accent has nothing to do with the ...
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... accent and the long syllable coincide , as in the or- dinary English hexameter , are ' rare even in Homer , ' Mr. Munro declares that such lines , instead of being rare , are among the very commonest types of Homeric rhythm . ' Mr ...
... accent and the long syllable coincide , as in the or- dinary English hexameter , are ' rare even in Homer , ' Mr. Munro declares that such lines , instead of being rare , are among the very commonest types of Homeric rhythm . ' Mr ...
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... accent on the first syllable of this word . He may be far from at- taining Mr. Spedding's nicety of ear ; —may be unable to feel that while quantity is a dactyl , quiddity is a tribrach , ' and that rapidly is a word to which we find no ...
... accent on the first syllable of this word . He may be far from at- taining Mr. Spedding's nicety of ear ; —may be unable to feel that while quantity is a dactyl , quiddity is a tribrach , ' and that rapidly is a word to which we find no ...
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... accent , or heightened tone , of Virgil in reading his own hexameters , was probably far from being the same thing as the accent or stress with which we read them . The general effect of each line , in Virgil's mouth , was probably ...
... accent , or heightened tone , of Virgil in reading his own hexameters , was probably far from being the same thing as the accent or stress with which we read them . The general effect of each line , in Virgil's mouth , was probably ...
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ability and learning accent admirable ancient hexameter antiquated to Sophocles Athenians ballad-form ballad-poetry ballad-style balladists blank verse bragly bulkin clear sense current English hexameter diction effect English language epic poetry erudition essential established possession expression false tendency familiar genius give grand style Greek hexameter hexa Homer seemed Homer's poetry Homeric colour Iliad imitation infer Jansenist Latin lines londis long syllable Longfellow lyrical cry matter metre metrical beat Milton mind Montesquieu movement Munro narrative narrative poetry never Newman noble nature Nonnus parallel Peleus perfect perfectly plain poet poetical gift prose quaint and antiquated quaint to call quantity Quintus of Smyrna reading rendering Homer reply rhythm rise and sink scholar simple simplesse simplicity sound spake spear longshadowy specimen Spedding Spedding's stanza Tennyson's poetry things thought TRANSLATING HOMER translator of Homer Trojans pitch'd true truth Tryphiodorus Virgil Virgilian hexameter words and style Wordsworth καὶ τε
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