On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford |
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accent Achilles Andromache antiquated applied to Homer ballad-manner ballad-style blank verse Chapman Chapman's version Cowper dactyl Dante Divine Comedy duces effect of Homer Elgin marbles Elizabethan eminently English hexameters English poetry epic epic poetry epithets expression fault feel fires garrulous genius give grammar grammatical style grand manner grand style Greek grotesque Hector hexameter Homer's manner Homer's movement Homer's plain Homer's poetry Homer's style Iliad impression instance judges language lator literary literature loose and idiomatic Maginn manner and movement matter metre Milton Moll Flanders mortal moss-trooping National Review ness Newman Newman's version Nibelungen Lay noble original passage Patroclus Peleus plainness and directness poem poetical Poor wretched beasts Pope Pope's Priam prosaic quaint quoted rapidity render Homer reproduce rhyme rhythm scholar Scott Shakspeare Shakspeare's Spenser's spondee steeds thee thou thought trans translating Homer translation of Homer translator's Trojans truly un-Homeric words Xanthus Zeus γὰρ καὶ
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Page 90 - 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.
Page 72 - 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...
Page 69 - 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...
Page 19 - Could all our care elude the gloomy grave, Which claims no less the fearful than the brave, For lust of fame I should not vainly dare In fighting fields, nor urge thy soul to war. But since, alas ! ignoble age must come, Disease, and death's inexorable doom, The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe ; Brave though we fall, and honour'd if we live, Or let us glory gain, or glory give!
Page 63 - Of the literature of France and Germany, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is.
Page 84 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
Page 92 - So numerous seem'd those fires, between the stream Of Xanthus blazing, and the fleet of Greece, In prospect all of Troy, a thousand fires, Each watch'd by fifty warriors, seated near ; The steeds beside the chariot stood, their corn Chewing, and waiting till the golden-throned Aurora should restore the light of day.
Page 94 - And prone to earth was hung their languid head: Nor Jove disdain'd to cast a pitying look, While thus relenting to the steeds he spoke: "Unhappy coursers of immortal strain, Exempt from age, and deathless, now in vain; Did we your race on mortal man bestow, Only, alas!
Page 98 - See, the wife of Hector, that great pre-eminent captain Of the horsemen of Troy, in the day they fought for their city. So some man will say ; and then thy grief will redouble At thy want of a man like me, to save thee from bondage. But let me be dead, and the earth be mounded above me, Ere I hear thy cries, and thy captivity told of.
Page 17 - dwelled with particular emphasis." His Lordship repeated the last word several times with a calm and determinate resignation ; and, after a serious pause of some minutes, he desired to hear the Treaty read, to which he listened with great attention, and recovered spirits enough to declare the approbation of a dying statesman (I use his own words) ' on the most glorious war, and most honourable peace, this nation ever saw.