On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating HomerMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 300 páginas |
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... Eugene O'Curry . Obscure Scaliger of a despised literature , he deserves some weightier voice to praise him than the ... Eugene O'Curry hands them to him . It was as a professor in the Catholic University in Dublin that O'Curry gave the ...
... Eugene O'Curry . Obscure Scaliger of a despised literature , he deserves some weightier voice to praise him than the ... Eugene O'Curry hands them to him . It was as a professor in the Catholic University in Dublin that O'Curry gave the ...
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... Eugene O'Curry , in these lectures of his , taking as his standard the quarto page of Dr. O'Donovan's edition of the Annals of the Four Masters ( and this printed monument of one branch of Irish literature occupies by itself , let me ...
... Eugene O'Curry , in these lectures of his , taking as his standard the quarto page of Dr. O'Donovan's edition of the Annals of the Four Masters ( and this printed monument of one branch of Irish literature occupies by itself , let me ...
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... Eugene O'Curry , unquestionable as is the sagacity , the moderation , which he in general unites with his immense learning , I must say that he , too , like his brother Celt - lovers , sometimes lays him- self dangerously open . For ...
... Eugene O'Curry , unquestionable as is the sagacity , the moderation , which he in general unites with his immense learning , I must say that he , too , like his brother Celt - lovers , sometimes lays him- self dangerously open . For ...
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... Eugene O'Curry ; one believes that he is really going to make it clear that St. Patrick did actually sanctify the Domhnach Airgid with his own hands ; and one reads on : - " As St. Patrick , says an ancient life of St. Mac Carthainn ...
... Eugene O'Curry ; one believes that he is really going to make it clear that St. Patrick did actually sanctify the Domhnach Airgid with his own hands ; and one reads on : - " As St. Patrick , says an ancient life of St. Mac Carthainn ...
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... Eugene O'Curry have imagined that it takes no more than a legend like that , to prove that the parti- cular manuscript now in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy was once in St. Patrick's pocket ? I insist upon extravagances like ...
... Eugene O'Curry have imagined that it takes no more than a legend like that , to prove that the parti- cular manuscript now in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy was once in St. Patrick's pocket ? I insist upon extravagances like ...
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On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating Homer Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1893 |
On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating Homer Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1902 |
On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating Homer Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1895 |
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accent admirable ancient antiquated ballad blank verse called Celt Celtic genius Celtic literature Celtic nature Celtism century Ceridwen Chapman Cowper criticism Dante diction doubt effect Eisteddfod Elizabethan eminently England English hexameter English nature Englishman epic epic poetry Eugene O'Curry expression feel German gift give Goethe grand style Greek Homer's poetry idiomatic Iliad imagine instance Ireland Irish language Latin lines literary literature Llandudno Llywarch Hen Lord Strangford matter ment metre Milton mind modern movement Nash nation never Newman noble Norman O'Curry original passage perception perfectly philology plainness and directness poem poet poetical Pope Pope's quaint quoted race rapidity rendering Homer rhyme rhythm Saxon scholar seems sense Shakspeare simplicity Sophocles speak Spedding speech spirit stanza Taliesin Teutonic thing thought tion translating Homer translator of Homer Trojans true un-Homeric Wales Welsh Welsh language Welsh literature words Xanthus Zeuss
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Página 122 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismay'd away. LOR. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.
Página 216 - What is this that he saith unto us, A little while and ye shall not s.ee me ; and again, a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We cannot tell what he saith.
Página 213 - When Duncan is asleep — Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey Soundly invite him — his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only...
Página 121 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 196 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Página 198 - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Página 280 - The same whom in my school-boy days I listened to; that Cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen. And I can listen to thee yet; Can lie upon the plain And listen, till I do beget That golden time again.
Página 278 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known, - cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Página 257 - Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues...
Página 185 - Tunstall lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield: Edmund is down; my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left, Let Stanley charge with spur of fire—- With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice? hence, varlets! fly! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.