The Quarterly Review, Volume 215John Murray, 1911 |
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... Verse . By W. G. Headlam . Cam- bridge : University Press , 1907 . 10. Greek Love Songs and Epigrams . By J. A. Pott . London : Kegan Paul , 1911 . ALL departments of human activity tend to reflect and to affect the spirit of the age in ...
... Verse . By W. G. Headlam . Cam- bridge : University Press , 1907 . 10. Greek Love Songs and Epigrams . By J. A. Pott . London : Kegan Paul , 1911 . ALL departments of human activity tend to reflect and to affect the spirit of the age in ...
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... verse , the epigram and the shorter lyric , made to whole centuries of change in taste and fashion among a people whose very quickness of wit tended to make it fickle in its allegiance to this or that particular form or style in poetry ...
... verse , the epigram and the shorter lyric , made to whole centuries of change in taste and fashion among a people whose very quickness of wit tended to make it fickle in its allegiance to this or that particular form or style in poetry ...
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... verse of an unknown writer in the Anthology : ' The step of hoary Time is slow , Yet upon us he ever gains , And , once o'ertaken , we must go To lands where silence always reigns ; Unseen himself , he hides from sight The seen , the ...
... verse of an unknown writer in the Anthology : ' The step of hoary Time is slow , Yet upon us he ever gains , And , once o'ertaken , we must go To lands where silence always reigns ; Unseen himself , he hides from sight The seen , the ...
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... verses into their own language . The majority of the renderings which survive in printed form are in rhyming verse . Blank verse has been seldom used , probably from a sense of its unfitness for the interpretation of the epigram or the ...
... verses into their own language . The majority of the renderings which survive in printed form are in rhyming verse . Blank verse has been seldom used , probably from a sense of its unfitness for the interpretation of the epigram or the ...
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... verse translation are still greater ; but , if these be overcome , the appeal to the heart and mind of the reader is not made in vain . He wants the swing of the rhythm and the cadence of word and sound . After all , poetry has its form ...
... verse translation are still greater ; but , if these be overcome , the appeal to the heart and mind of the reader is not made in vain . He wants the swing of the rhythm and the cadence of word and sound . After all , poetry has its form ...
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