The National Review, Volume 91W.H. Allen, 1928 - Great Britain |
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Drama has written : " I have often used more elaborate diction than he [ Euripides ] because I found that , Greek being a very simple and austere language and modern English an ornate one , a direct translation produced an effect of ...
Drama has written : " I have often used more elaborate diction than he [ Euripides ] because I found that , Greek being a very simple and austere language and modern English an ornate one , a direct translation produced an effect of ...
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Most languages , it is true , have their limitations , but not English , and very certainly not Greek . Browning's Abt Vogler would seem , at first sight , incapable of translation into any other language : but Jebb succeeded in ...
Most languages , it is true , have their limitations , but not English , and very certainly not Greek . Browning's Abt Vogler would seem , at first sight , incapable of translation into any other language : but Jebb succeeded in ...
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That is exactly what Callimachus said , and that is how he said it : if my words ( 49 English to 39 Greek ) seem at first hearing unemotional and almost prosaic to English readers , and therefore leave them cold , that is because ...
That is exactly what Callimachus said , and that is how he said it : if my words ( 49 English to 39 Greek ) seem at first hearing unemotional and almost prosaic to English readers , and therefore leave them cold , that is because ...
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