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¹ Cf ¹Cf according Achilles action adventures Alboin ancient Andamanese appears Aristotle artistic Atea attained authority Beowulf central century ceremonial character Charlemagne chief clan Clovis conception corresponding criticism dance distinct dramatic element embodiment ence epic poetry especially existence expression father says furnish Gepid Germanic Godomar gods Greeks hai-yaí hero Heruli Hist Homeric epics Iceland ideal Iliad illustration imitation improvisation Inapertwa incidents independence indicated individual influence Jebb king land legends literary literature London looms ment Minturno monarchic Monumenta Germaniae historica Moreover Mycenaean narrative and lyric national celebrations nature Nibelungenlied Njal Saga Odyssey Paris plot poet poetic species poétique poetry popular present preserved Puluga Rajna recital Renaud Renaud de Montauban representative result Roland Saga Sedna singer songs Spingarn spirit story struggle supra Tacitus Tanaoa tells tendency tion told Trans transmitted tribes unity Whaw
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Page 90 - Celebrant carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriae et annalium genus est, Tuistonem deum terra editum, et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque. Manno tris filios assignant, e quorum nominibus proximi Oceano Ingaevones, medii Herminones, ceteri Istaevones vocentur.
Page 24 - I mean not here the prosody of a verse, which they could not but have hit on before among the rudiments of Grammar; but that sublime Art which in Aristotles Poetics, in Horace, and the Italian Commentaries of Castelvetro, Tasso, Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true Epic Poem, what of a Dramatic, what of a Lyric, what Decorum is, which is the grand master-peece to observe.
Page 78 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Page 26 - JEneid the space of time, which is taken up by the action of each of those poems; but as a great part of Milton's story was transacted in regions that lie out of the reach of the sun and the sphere of day...
Page 140 - Good sir, sit still and hearken to the words of others that are thy betters; but thou art no warrior, and a weakling, never reckoned whether in battle or in council. In no wise can we Achaians all be kings here. A multitude of masters is no good thing; let there be one master, one king, to whom the son of crooked-counselling Kronos hath granted it, even the sceptre and judgments, that he may rule among you.
Page 25 - Tydides' fortitude, as Homer wrought them In his immortal fancy, for examples Of the heroic virtue. Or, as Virgil, That master of the Epic Poem, limn'd Pious .Eneas, his religious prince, Bearing his aged parent on his shoulders, Rapt from the flames of Troy, with his young son. And these he brought to practise and to use.
Page 54 - O father, if you knew how wretched I am you would come to me and we would hurry away in your boat over the waters. The birds look unkindly upon me the stranger; cold winds roar about my bed; they give me but miserable food. O come and take me back home. Aja.
Page 78 - They were his only songs. I heard them both regardless of expense. I did not understand them, because I did not know his language ; but they were fascinating things, and the human hand one had a passage in it which caused the singer to crawl on his hands and knees, round and round, stealthily looking this side and that, giving the peculiar leopard questing cough, and making the leopard mark on the earth with his doubled-up fist. Ah ! that was something like a song ! It would have roused a rock to...
Page 133 - Then she called to her goodly-haired handmaids through the house to set a great tripod on the fire, that Hector might have warm washing when he came home out of the battle — fond heart, and was unaware how, far from all washings, bright-eyed Athene had slain him by the hand of Achilles.