| Conrad Bursian, Iwan Philipp Eduard Ritter von Müller, Oskar Seyffert, Wilhelm Kroll, Alfred Körte, Karl Münscher, Andreas Thierfelder - 1892 - 564 páginas
...Sprache, die wir gurgelnd ächzen, Und speiend zischen, grunzen oder krächzen«.1) (Byron, Beppo 44). ') I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses in a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that breathe of the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1893 - 374 páginas
...borrow That sort of farthing candlelight which glimmers Where reeking London's smoky caldron simmers. I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South,... | |
| George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - 1893 - 224 páginas
...Lost: Milton, Here, too, are imitations first of one effect and then of another contrasting with it: " I love the language, that soft, bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that breathe of the sweet south,... | |
| William Mathews - 1896 - 522 páginas
...— turns traitor to his native language, and in a moment of caprice denounces it for its harshness: "I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which...sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables that breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids, gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent... | |
| 1896 - 1224 páginas
...more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. d. BUTLER — Hudibrax. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 51. my merit is not mouth. e. BYBON— Beppo. St. 44. He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease Than hogs eat acorns,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 592 páginas
...revenge on Boccaccio, and Byron has had his revenge on them.] 1. [Compare Beppo, stanza xliv. — " I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South."... | |
| George Santayana - 1900 - 316 páginas
...boyish fashion burlesque with exquisite sentiment, contrasts English with Italian speech : — " I lore the language, that soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female inouth And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables which breathe of the sweet South,... | |
| George Milbry Gould - 1900 - 198 páginas
...thunder." " I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses in a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables that breathe of the sweet South ; 1 A writer, Mr. J. Donovan {Mind, July, 1892), contends that articulation... | |
| Arthur T. Pierson - 1900 - 506 páginas
...pentameter aye falling in melody back. — Coleridge, a86 A fine example of onomatopoeia. I love that language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South.... | |
| George Milbry Gould - 1900 - 196 páginas
...Rend with tremendous sound your ears asunder, With gun, drum, trumpet, blunderbuss, and thunder." " I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses in a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With syllables that breathe of the sweet... | |
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