On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at OxfordLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 104 páginas |
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... Cowper and Mr. Wright have failed in rendering him ; that , for want of duly appreciating the second - named quality , his plainness and directness of style and diction , Pope and Mr. Sotheby have failed in ren- dering him ; that for ...
... Cowper and Mr. Wright have failed in rendering him ; that , for want of duly appreciating the second - named quality , his plainness and directness of style and diction , Pope and Mr. Sotheby have failed in ren- dering him ; that for ...
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... Cowper's manner , as Mr. Sotheby repeats Pope's manner , and neither Mr. Wright's translation nor Mr. Sotheby's has , I must be forgiven for saying , any proper reason for exist- ing ) between Cowper and Homer there is inter- posed the ...
... Cowper's manner , as Mr. Sotheby repeats Pope's manner , and neither Mr. Wright's translation nor Mr. Sotheby's has , I must be forgiven for saying , any proper reason for exist- ing ) between Cowper and Homer there is inter- posed the ...
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... Cowper un - Homeric : So numerous seem'd those fires the banks between Of Xanthus , blazing , and the fleet of Greece In prospect all of Troy ; where the position of the word " blazing " gives an entirely un - Homeric movement to this ...
... Cowper un - Homeric : So numerous seem'd those fires the banks between Of Xanthus , blazing , and the fleet of Greece In prospect all of Troy ; where the position of the word " blazing " gives an entirely un - Homeric movement to this ...
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... Cowper insists on his fidelity : " my chief boast is that I have adhered closely to my original : " " the matter found in me , whether the reader like it or not , is found also in Homer ; and the matter not found in me , how much soever ...
... Cowper insists on his fidelity : " my chief boast is that I have adhered closely to my original : " " the matter found in me , whether the reader like it or not , is found also in Homer ; and the matter not found in me , how much soever ...
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... Cowper in his translation of Homer . It is well known how extravagantly free is Pope ; So let it be ! Portents and prodigies are lost on me : that is Pope's rendering of the words , Ξάνθε , τί μοι θάνατον μαντεύεαι ; οὐδέ τί σε χρή ...
... Cowper in his translation of Homer . It is well known how extravagantly free is Pope ; So let it be ! Portents and prodigies are lost on me : that is Pope's rendering of the words , Ξάνθε , τί μοι θάνατον μαντεύεαι ; οὐδέ τί σε χρή ...
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On Translating Homer: Last Words. A Lecture Given at Oxford Matthew Arnold Visualização completa - 1862 |
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