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... keeps alike in passages of the simplest narrative , and in those of the deepest emotion . Not only , for example , are these lines of Cowper un - Homeric : So numerous seem'd those fires the banks between Of Xanthus , blazing , and the ...
... keeps alike in passages of the simplest narrative , and in those of the deepest emotion . Not only , for example , are these lines of Cowper un - Homeric : So numerous seem'd those fires the banks between Of Xanthus , blazing , and the ...
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... keeping back Would keep back age from us , and death , and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all , but that deferring now We shunn'd death ever , -nor would I half this vain valour show , Nor glorify a folly so , to ...
... keeping back Would keep back age from us , and death , and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all , but that deferring now We shunn'd death ever , -nor would I half this vain valour show , Nor glorify a folly so , to ...
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... keeps to one thought at a time , and puts that thought forth in its complete natural plainness , instead of being led away from it by some fancy striking him in connection with it , and being beguiled to wander off with this fancy till ...
... keeps to one thought at a time , and puts that thought forth in its complete natural plainness , instead of being led away from it by some fancy striking him in connection with it , and being beguiled to wander off with this fancy till ...
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... keeping back Would keep back age from us , and death , and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all ; and so on . Again ; in another passage which I have before quoted , where Zeus says to the horses of Peleus : τί σφῶϊ ...
... keeping back Would keep back age from us , and death , and that we might not wrack In this life's human sea at all ; and so on . Again ; in another passage which I have before quoted , where Zeus says to the horses of Peleus : τί σφῶϊ ...
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... keep safe behind the walls ) , " since I have learned to be staunch always , and to fight among the foremost of the Trojans , busy on behalf of my father's great glory , and my own . " In Chapman's hands this becomes : The spirit I ...
... keep safe behind the walls ) , " since I have learned to be staunch always , and to fight among the foremost of the Trojans , busy on behalf of my father's great glory , and my own . " In Chapman's hands this becomes : The spirit I ...
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On Translating Homer: Last Words. A Lecture Given at Oxford Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1862 |
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