Introduction to the Language and Verse of HomerGinn, 1902 - Počet stran: 104 |
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accent adjectives Adverbs Aeolic aorist apocope asyndeton Attic Bucolic diaeresis caesura clause collateral forms consonant contracted dactyl dative declension diaeresis dialect diphthong Edited by Professor elision ending English epithets feminine fourth foot frequent genitive hiatus Homer Iliad Latin lengthened metre metrical mute noun Odyssey optative original participle patronymic pause Pindar plural poems poet preposition pronoun proper names quantity rare reduplication second aorist sentences short syllable short vowel singular sometimes spondee stem subjunctive suffix synizesis third foot uncontracted verbs verse vowel words ἀλλ ἀνδρῶν ἀπὸ ἄρ Αχαιών γὰρ δὲ δὴ εἰ εἰς ἐκ Εκτωρ ἐν ἐπ ἐπὶ ἐς Ζεύς καὶ κτλ μὲν μιν μοι νῦν Οδυσσεύς οἱ ὃς οὔ οὐδ περὶ τε τε καὶ ὡς
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Strana 6 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
Strana 4 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Strana 4 - Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays , The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o'er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, Whose nmber'd...
Strana 20 - And all their echoes mourn. The willows and the hazel copses green Shall now no more be seen Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the canker* to the rose...
Strana 3 - That which, in my opinion, ought to be the endeavour of any one who translates Homer, is above all things to keep alive that spirit and fire which makes his chief character...
Strana 3 - ... a shortness and gravity: not to neglect even the little figures and turns on the words, nor sometimes the very cast of the periods ; neither to omit nor confound any rites or customs of antiquity: perhaps, too, he ought to include the whole in a shorter compass than has hitherto been done by any translator who has tolerably preserved either the sense or poetry.
Strana 20 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Strana 3 - So many fires disclosed their beams, made by the Trojan part, Before the face of Ilion, and her bright turrets show'd. A thousand courts of guard kept fires, and every guard allow'd Fifty stout men, by whom their horse eat oats and hard white corn, And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned morn.
Strana 4 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Strana 7 - So shone forth, in front of Troy, by the bed of Xanthus, Between that and the ships, the Trojans' numerous fires. In the plain there were kindled a thousand fires : by each one There sate fifty men, in the ruddy light of the fire. By their chariots stood the steeds, and champ'd the white barley, While their masters sate by the fire, and waited for Morning.