On Translating Homer: Last Words. A Lecture Given at OxfordLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 69 páginas |
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... hand , that I am absurdly wrong here ; that Homer seemed out and out ' quaint and antiquated to the Athenians ; that ' every sentence of him was more or less antiquated to Sophocles , who could no more help feeling at every instant the ...
... hand , that I am absurdly wrong here ; that Homer seemed out and out ' quaint and antiquated to the Athenians ; that ' every sentence of him was more or less antiquated to Sophocles , who could no more help feeling at every instant the ...
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... hands of mothers and nurses , in his model republic ; in order that , of an author with whom they were sure to be so perpetually conversant , the young might learn only those parts which might do them good . His language was as familiar ...
... hands of mothers and nurses , in his model republic ; in order that , of an author with whom they were sure to be so perpetually conversant , the young might learn only those parts which might do them good . His language was as familiar ...
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... hands me a list of some twenty hard words , invokes Buttman , Mr. Malden , and M. Benfey , and asks me if I think myself wiser than all the world of Greek scholars , and if I am ready to supply the deficiencies of Liddell and Scott's ...
... hands me a list of some twenty hard words , invokes Buttman , Mr. Malden , and M. Benfey , and asks me if I think myself wiser than all the world of Greek scholars , and if I am ready to supply the deficiencies of Liddell and Scott's ...
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... hand ; and the words , heard over and over again , come to convey this meaning with a certainty which poetically is adequate , though not philologically . How many have attached a clear and poetically adequate sense to ' the beam ' and ...
... hand ; and the words , heard over and over again , come to convey this meaning with a certainty which poetically is adequate , though not philologically . How many have attached a clear and poetically adequate sense to ' the beam ' and ...
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... of them most indifferent , -Coluthus , Tryphiodorus , Quintus of Smyrna , Nonnus . Never will you find in this instrument of the hexameter , even in their hands , the vices of the ballad - style in the weak 36 ON TRANSLATING HOMER :
... of them most indifferent , -Coluthus , Tryphiodorus , Quintus of Smyrna , Nonnus . Never will you find in this instrument of the hexameter , even in their hands , the vices of the ballad - style in the weak 36 ON TRANSLATING HOMER :
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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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