The Quarterly Review, Volumen51William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1834 |
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... original language . Now , Drury Lane theatre was pulled down in 1791 , and not re - opened till 1794 ; as , however , he might have seen the Drury Lane company at the Opera House , we forgive that inaccuracy : but he adds , that he was ...
... original language . Now , Drury Lane theatre was pulled down in 1791 , and not re - opened till 1794 ; as , however , he might have seen the Drury Lane company at the Opera House , we forgive that inaccuracy : but he adds , that he was ...
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... original , reads the vulgar traduction of him into Latin prose , than which nothing seems more raving . And sure , rhyme , without the addition of wit and the spirit of poetry- ( quod nequeo mon- strare , et sentio tantum ) -would but ...
... original , reads the vulgar traduction of him into Latin prose , than which nothing seems more raving . And sure , rhyme , without the addition of wit and the spirit of poetry- ( quod nequeo mon- strare , et sentio tantum ) -would but ...
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... original . Certainly Mr. Wright's double triplets without the third rhyme , which so subtly links together the total rhythmic flow of the Italian , sound to our ears as little like the Dantescan harmony as Cary's blank verse , and not ...
... original . Certainly Mr. Wright's double triplets without the third rhyme , which so subtly links together the total rhythmic flow of the Italian , sound to our ears as little like the Dantescan harmony as Cary's blank verse , and not ...
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... original must be made to fit the appointed frame , cost what it may in amputation , excision , or stretching ; and it may well be questioned whether , upon a review of all our English versions of the Greek and Latin poets - to say ...
... original must be made to fit the appointed frame , cost what it may in amputation , excision , or stretching ; and it may well be questioned whether , upon a review of all our English versions of the Greek and Latin poets - to say ...
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... original , we think more of what is really Pindar's , and less of what is not Pindar's , might be worthily given in an English version . The labour to the translator would , in one respect , be greatly increased , unless he were a ...
... original , we think more of what is really Pindar's , and less of what is not Pindar's , might be worthily given in an English version . The labour to the translator would , in one respect , be greatly increased , unless he were a ...
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Página 37 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 25 - Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger, a damsel train behind ; Some rich Philistian matron she may seem, And now, at nearer view, no other certain Than Dalila thy wife.
Página 24 - Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play...
Página 38 - O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 460 - There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.
Página 303 - So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as> the pure sources of genuine diction.
Página 303 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Página 74 - But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 365 - ... fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 39 - Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of Silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness till it smiled.