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... considers that , supposing my lines were the original , the Latin of Propertius is a just rendering of them . That is the criterion which I have applied to myself . ' The contrary view is implied in what a former colleague at Trinity ...
... considers that , supposing my lines were the original , the Latin of Propertius is a just rendering of them . That is the criterion which I have applied to myself . ' The contrary view is implied in what a former colleague at Trinity ...
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... it to the curious to consider why C. S. Calverley has rendered this ' teeth of ghastly blue . ' ' Flew ' ( Hor . transuolat ) demanded its rhyme , but why ' blue ' rather than ' hue ' ? as generally , ' alleged , ' ib . p 78 TRANSLATION.
... it to the curious to consider why C. S. Calverley has rendered this ' teeth of ghastly blue . ' ' Flew ' ( Hor . transuolat ) demanded its rhyme , but why ' blue ' rather than ' hue ' ? as generally , ' alleged , ' ib . p 78 TRANSLATION.
Page 58
... consider with me , what their life , and what their car- riage was : by what men and means both in war and peace , their dominion was atcheeved and enlarged . Afterward , as their discipline began by little and little to shrinke , let ...
... consider with me , what their life , and what their car- riage was : by what men and means both in war and peace , their dominion was atcheeved and enlarged . Afterward , as their discipline began by little and little to shrinke , let ...
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... considering Translation in its general aspects . We now consider it in relation to special forms . Notwithstanding some uncertainty as to the exact lines of demarcation , the world of literature is still parted into two great continents ...
... considering Translation in its general aspects . We now consider it in relation to special forms . Notwithstanding some uncertainty as to the exact lines of demarcation , the world of literature is still parted into two great continents ...
Page 82
... considering seems partly true and partly false . It is true that verse has restric- tions of its own . This the Romans saw when they distinguished verse and prose as metrically bound ( uinctus ) and free ( solutus ) . But there is an ...
... considering seems partly true and partly false . It is true that verse has restric- tions of its own . This the Romans saw when they distinguished verse and prose as metrically bound ( uinctus ) and free ( solutus ) . But there is an ...
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Aeneid Aeschylus amor ancient Anthologia Palatina atque blank verse Catullus Classical Conington correspond couplets cura D. G. ROSSETTI decasyllable dolores Dryden English Ennius Euripides eyes F. W. Newman French Greek haec hath heaven Hector hexameter Homer Horace Horatian iambic illa ipsa ipse language Latin Loeb LUCAN Lucretius lumina manus Matthew Arnold Messrs Ritchie metres mihi misero nulla nunc Odes omne original poem poet poetry Pompey Preface prius procul Professor Wilamowitz Propertius prose Prospective Translation puella quae quam quid quies quod quoque rendering RETROSPECTIVE TRANSLATIONS rhyme Ritchie and Moore Roman Sapphic says sibi sidera Sir George Young stanza syllables thee thine thou tibi Tibullus trans uiro uita Wilamowitz words write ἀλλ γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν καὶ μὲν μὴ σὺ τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τὸν ὡς
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Page 176 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Page 150 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 51 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story ; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 178 - I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war...
Page 124 - While thus he spake, the angelic squadron bright Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx, and began to hem him round With ported spears, as thick as when a field Of Ceres, ripe for harvest, waving bends Her bearded grove of ears, which way the wind Sways them ; the careful ploughman doubting stands, Lest on the threshing-floor his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
Page 164 - When from thy cheerful eyes a ray Hath struck a bliss upon the day, A bliss that would not go away, A sweet fore-warning?
Page 146 - ... glass, Here's to the charmer whose dimples we prize ; Now to the maid who has none, sir : Here's to the girl with a pair of blue eyes; And here's to the nymph with but one, sir.
Page 150 - For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 172 - THESE, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.
Page 162 - A month or more hath she been dead, Yet cannot I by force be led To think upon the wormy bed And her together. A springy motion in her gait, A rising step, did indicate Of pride and joy no common rate, That...