 | Matthew Arnold - Translating and interpreting - 1861 - 132 pages
...with all their great gifts, are apt to be somewhat wanting — simple lucidity of mind. III. HOMER is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement, and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 404 pages
...translators, have nowhere been so succinctly stated as by Matthew Arnold. " Homer is rapid in his movements; Homer is plain in his words and style ; Homer is simple in his ideas ; Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 400 pages
...succinctly stated as by Matthew Arnold. " Homer is rapid in his movements; Homer is plain in his words arid style; Homer is simple in his ideas; Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...comments on some of the Homeric translations in these terms : — " Homer is rapid in his movements ; Homer is plain in his words and style; Homer is simple in his ideas ; Homer is noblo in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movements and elaborate in his... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 334 pages
...authors, with all their great gifts, are apt to be somewhat wanting—simple lucidity of mind. Ill Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement, and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
 | Thomas Day Seymour - 1885 - 120 pages
...TRANSLATIONS. Matthew Arnold enumerates four essential characteristics of Homer's poetry : 1 " Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
 | Thomas Day Seymour - 1886 - 120 pages
...TRANSLATIONS. Matthew Arnold enumerates four essential characteristics of Homer's poetry : l " Homer Í' is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words and i style, Homer is simple in his ideas, Homer is noble injj his manner. Cowper renders him ill because... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1892 - 214 pages
...quitted the regions of youthful enchantmsnt." L. 1 6. 3. Cf. Arnold, On Translating Homer, 200 : "Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner." Bagehot, Literary Studies, 353 : " English literature contains one great, one nearly perfect, model... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1896 - 498 pages
...HOMERIC STYLE, a. Matthew Arnold enumerates four essential characteristics of Homer's poetry: 'Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement and elaborate in his style; Pope renders... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1896 - 306 pages
...unprofitable." — Sweetness and Light, paragraphs III.-VI. Compare, also, from On Translating Homer : " Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words...simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement, and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders... | |
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Homer is rapid in his movement, Homer is plain in his words and style, Homer is simple in his ideas, Homer is noble in his manner. Cowper renders him ill because he is slow in his movement, and elaborate in his style ; Pope renders him ill because he... 
