On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating HomerMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 300 páginas |
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Página ix
... seems to me , — in the aspect in which his work , on the whole , shows it , too absolute , too stationary , too much without a future ; and this tends to make it , for the non - Celtic part of his readers , less fruitful than it ...
... seems to me , — in the aspect in which his work , on the whole , shows it , too absolute , too stationary , too much without a future ; and this tends to make it , for the non - Celtic part of his readers , less fruitful than it ...
Página xv
... seems never to dream of employing these influences upon a race he wants to fuse with himself . He employs simply material interests for his work of fusion ; and , beyond these , nothing except scorn and rebuke . Accordingly there is no ...
... seems never to dream of employing these influences upon a race he wants to fuse with himself . He employs simply material interests for his work of fusion ; and , beyond these , nothing except scorn and rebuke . Accordingly there is no ...
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... seems to me , with their Saxon invaders , an inaptitude for show and spectacle . Show and spectacle are better managed by the Latin race , and those whom it has moulded ; the Welsh , like us , are a little awkward and resource- less in ...
... seems to me , with their Saxon invaders , an inaptitude for show and spectacle . Show and spectacle are better managed by the Latin race , and those whom it has moulded ; the Welsh , like us , are a little awkward and resource- less in ...
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... seem dangerous to us to let such opposites to our- selves have speech and utterance . Certainly the Jew , the Jew of ancient times , at least , —then seemed a thousand degrees nearer than the Celt to us . Puritanism had so assimilated ...
... seem dangerous to us to let such opposites to our- selves have speech and utterance . Certainly the Jew , the Jew of ancient times , at least , —then seemed a thousand degrees nearer than the Celt to us . Puritanism had so assimilated ...
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... seem , I am inclined to think that the march of science , - science insisting that there is no such original chasm between the Celt and the Saxon as we once popularly imagined , that they are not truly , what Lord Lynd- hurst called ...
... seem , I am inclined to think that the march of science , - science insisting that there is no such original chasm between the Celt and the Saxon as we once popularly imagined , that they are not truly , what Lord Lynd- hurst called ...
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On the Study of Celtic Literature: And On Translating Homer Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1893 |
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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 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.
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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...
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