On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating HomerMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 300 páginas |
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... perfectly Welshmen can avoid this danger if they will . “ When I see the enthusiasm these Eisteddfods can awaken in your whole people , and then think of the tastes , the literature , the amusements , of our own lower and middle class ...
... perfectly Welshmen can avoid this danger if they will . “ When I see the enthusiasm these Eisteddfods can awaken in your whole people , and then think of the tastes , the literature , the amusements , of our own lower and middle class ...
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... perfectly Indo - European , but they had no case - endings to their nouns , -none at all in Welsh , none that could be understood in Gaelic ; their phonesis seemed primeval and inexplicable , and nothing could be made out of their ...
... perfectly Indo - European , but they had no case - endings to their nouns , -none at all in Welsh , none that could be understood in Gaelic ; their phonesis seemed primeval and inexplicable , and nothing could be made out of their ...
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... perfectly incap- able of extravagances of this sort , fall too often into a loose mode of criticism concerning him and the documents of his history , which is unsatisfactory in itself , and also gives an advantage to his many enemies ...
... perfectly incap- able of extravagances of this sort , fall too often into a loose mode of criticism concerning him and the documents of his history , which is unsatisfactory in itself , and also gives an advantage to his many enemies ...
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... perfectly given to the finest perceptions and emotions . The Greek has the same perceptive , emotional temperament as the Celt ; but he adds to this temperament the sense of measure ; hence his admirable success in the plastic arts , in ...
... perfectly given to the finest perceptions and emotions . The Greek has the same perceptive , emotional temperament as the Celt ; but he adds to this temperament the sense of measure ; hence his admirable success in the plastic arts , in ...
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... perfectly simple , limpid style , which is the supreme style of all , but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose . The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose , and is the same kind of simplicity ...
... perfectly simple , limpid style , which is the supreme style of all , but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose . The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose , and is the same kind of simplicity ...
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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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