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...The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. A ... ...ity university. 3 The Iliad of Homer The Iliad of Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. PR...

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...You translate cleverly. I hear in verse My uncle Homeware’s prose. He has these notions. Old men presume to read us. ARD...

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... nothing at stake in the matter. She had a shrewd perception that form, in prose at least, never recom- mended any one to the public we were condemned...

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...st — he was but a Carrier by the way — and we can bear to have them talking prose, and leading lives of prose; and bear to bless thee for their compa...

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...nomics, and the Icelandic Sagas. He had turned Persian poetry into English prose, and English prose into Greek iambics; he was an authority upon coins...

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...her and myself, was too inconsiderable to defray the expense attending the prosecution of my studies. As my age did not render the choice very pressin... ...the form of an enchanting neck, nothing escaped the eager eye of the young proselyte; for that instant I was hers!—a religion preached by such mission... ...omplaisance for M. Gras, and humanity to myself, spared some time from the prosecution of his own studies in order to direct mine. Never did I see a m... ... increased my emulation, to which he added some good advice respecting the prosecu- tion of my studies, which I found useful. Unhappily, this weakly b... ...a good exercise to teach elegant turns of expression, and to write well in prose, but could never find attractions enough in French poetry to give en-... ...ification; yet, anxious to understand the harmony of the language, both in prose and verse, I have made many efforts to obtain it, but am convinced, t... ...take to read this work, that nothing can secure them from weariness in the prosecution of their task, unless it be the desire of becoming more fully a... ...ve to speak; I meditated a history of the Valais; the plan of a tragedy in prose, the subject of which, nothing less than Lucretia, did not deprive me... ...h the mania of writing; but Madam de Boufflers was. She wrote a tragedy in prose, which, in the first place, was read, handed about, and highly spoken...

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...ll you say, but I fear I observe the faintest indications of a tendency to prose.’ ‘I am very sorry, sir.’ ‘I am very sorry, too, Ned, but you know th... ...l day long, nothing, save a draught of wa ter, passed his lips; though he prosecuted his inquiries far and wide, and never so much as sat down, once.... ...time has come—Heaven knows it may come at any moment—when they are bent on prosecuting the de signs, whatever they may be, with which they have broug... ... the scattered fragments of the mob in check; the search after rioters was prosecuted with unrelenting vigour; and if there were any among them so des... ...y night: and in the chimney corner, they all four quaffed, and smoked, and prosed, and dozed, as they had done of old. It being accidentally discovere...

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...to be “the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in details of manners and customs, a word- p... ...ly, gesticulating; and looking like Ceres after the rape of her daugh- ter Proserpine, seeking her in fury, and demanding her back from Jupiter. Every... ... fury against M. d’Orleans, and insisted upon nothing less than a criminal prosecution. He insisted so strongly upon this, that the King at last conse... ...should leave no successors. When war came, then, we were utterly unable to prosecute it with success or honour. We were driven out of Germany, of Ital...

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... few moments of leisure” by the superior poetic geniuses who scorn to take prose pains. 28 Mugby Junction It must be admitted, however, that Barbox b...

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...one exception, moved 94 Robert Louis Stevenson in harmony with classical rules. That exception was the comic countryman, a lean marionnette in wooden... ...icked his fellow- marionnettes in the mouth with his wooden shoes, and whenever none of the versifying suitors were about, made love to Thisbe on his ...

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... books, from news, from company, from all that can relieve existence but the prosecution of his affairs. A sky full of stars is the most varied specta... ...de Charles d’Orleans, a map, and a ver- sion book containing divers notes in prose and the remark- able English roundels of the voyager, still to this... ...ks of Mr. Andrew Lang; who has written of it but the other day in his dainty prose and with his incommunicable humour, and long ago in one of his best... ...ut lays a claim to some dormant title or some castle and estate: a claim not prosecutable in any court of law, but flat- tering to the fancy and a gre...

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...reat, forcible sen- tences, full of eloquence, of fire, of passion. As his prose grew more exalted, it passed easily into the domain of poetry. Soon t... ...ption: “Warning. All persons found trespassing on these pre- mises will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. By order P. and S. W . R. R.” ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come sinc...

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...ruary 1852. INTRODUCTION Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not... ...es. The result of all this study was a beautiful and short Homeric epic in prose, called Taras Bulba. His appointment to a professorship in history wa... ...s Governor of the town, who President of the Local Council, and who Public Prosecutor. In short, he omitted no single official of note, while asking a... ...v repaired to the Vice-Governor’s, and thence to the house of the Pub- lic Prosecutor, to that of the President of the Local Coun- cil, to that of the... ... had already recognised several familiar faces—namely, those of the Public Prosecutor (a man with beetling brows over eyes which seemed to be saying w... ...ngular. Yet although he did the same to the Chief of Police and the Public Prosecutor, the company had no sooner seated themselves at the card-table t... ...Com- missioner of Taxes, a smaller dinner-party at the house of the Public Prosecutor (a very wealthy man), and a subse- quent reception given by the ... ... the most perti- nent kind possible to offer. Did the company touch upon a prosecution which had recently been carried out by the Excise Department, i... ...s his opinion that Chichikov was a man of excellent intentions; the Public Prosecutor, that he was a good man of business; the Chief of Gendarmery, th...

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...the nerves. They had kept the hardest work to the last, as boys save Latin prose, and, worn though they were, Mr. Wardrop did not dare to give them re... ...a disgraced employ, an’ a corrupter o’ young Bannister’s morals, an’ he’ d prosecute me for libel. He went away when I ran up the steps—I’d ha’ thrown... ...in’ bodysnatcher. There’s justice, I tell you, in England; and my Union’ll prosecute, too. We don’t stand no tricks with people’s insides ‘ere. They g...

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... Mecum of the true sublime, Which makes so many poets, and some fools: Prose poets like blank verse, I ‘m fond of rhyme, Good workmen never ... ... Saw Juan’s last elopement with the devil. If ever I should condescend to prose, I ‘ll write poetical commandments, which Shall supersede bey... ...ek I study, also Blair, the highest reachers Of eloquence in piety and prose I hate your poets, so read none of those. As for the ladies, I... ...us, Which doubles what they think of the transgression: With suits and prosecutions they besiege us, As the tribunals show through many a se... ...ttle art In leaving verse more free from the restriction Of truth than prose, unless to suit the mart For what is sometimes called poetic di... ...ject: a brave Tartar khan— Or ‘sultan,’ as the author (to whose nod In prose I bend my humble verse) doth call This chieftain — somehow would ... ...uch is polygamy, That she spawns warriors by the score, where none Are prosecuted for that false crime bigamy), He never would believe the c... ...eir burthens, meaning the high classes. I have seen small poets, and great prosers, and Interminable—not eternal—speakers— I have seen the fun... ... seldom shown, And ne’er to be described; for to the dolour Of bards and prosers, words are void of colour. No marvel then he was a favourite; ...

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...en the most essential element of success, whether in translating poetry or prose. It was therefore very satisfactory to me to find that the principle ... ... Fain he’d have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; None in prose confess an error, Yet we do so, void of terror, In the Muses’ silent ...

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... sever, read, be separated, but “a” wouldn’t rhyme.’ ‘I translated it into prose, and Guy made it verse,’ said Laura; ‘I hope you approve of our perfo...

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...imself, indeed almost before he knew he was attacked; nor did he cease the prosecution of his blows till the woman herself begged him to forbear, sayi... ...e, as we are about to attempt a descrip tion hitherto unassayed either in prose or verse, we think proper to invoke the assistance of certain aerial ... ...r, could she have lived to hear that you had yourself employed a lawyer to prosecute him for a murder of which he was not guilty —Forgive me, Mr. Allw... ...d my husband, I should be assisted with any money I wanted to carry on the prosecution, by a very worthy gentle man, who, he said, was well apprized ... ...at as tonishment in his countenance, “tell you that I would assist in the prosecution?” —”No, sir,” answered she, “I will not charge him wrongfully. ... ...red my husband, I should be assisted by any money I wanted to carry on the prosecution, by a very worthy gentleman, who was well apprized what a villa...

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...hrastus knew and described the apple- tree as a botanist. According to the prose Edda,* “Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they fe...

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...urrent superstitions, by reminding his readers that it would expose him to prosecution. In En- gland, so many of our respectable voters are still grov... ...om metric patterns. Nobody claims that the hierarchy of modern impassioned prose writers, from Bunyan to Ruskin, should be placed be- low the writers ... ...ave seen, finds its parallel in musical art, since music can be written in prose themes or in versified tunes; only here nobody dreams of disputing th... ... tunes; only here nobody dreams of disputing the greater difficulty of the prose forms, and the comparative triviality of versification. Yet in dramat... ...them. But if Shakespeare had been compelled by custom to write entirely in prose, all his ordinary dia- logue might have been as good as the first sce... ...easily than a dramatist of ordinary singleness of talent can express it in prose. Accordingly , he too, like Shakespeare and Shelley, leaves versified... ...a form, like symphonic movements, and must therefore be classed as musical prose. And sonata form dictates repetitions and recapitulations from which ...

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...peech Doth owe to him a fairer ornament. He in love ditties and the tales of prose Without a rival stands, and lets the fools Talk on, who think the s... ... and this fair place, methinks, I call to mind where wander’d and how look’d Proserpine, in that season, when her child The mother lost, and she the b... ...n opportunity of judging for ourselves of his “love ditties and his tales of prose “ Versi d’amore e prose di romanzi . Our Poet frequently cities ... ...in its being best adapted, on account of its facility and agreeableness, to prose narration, ( quicquid redactum, sive inventum est ad vulgare prosai...

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...not being. And this is what the great Parmenides was all his life denying in prose and also in verse. ‘Y ou will never find,’ he says, ‘that not being...

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...xxxiv. st. 80. Milton has translated both this passage and that in the text. Prose works, vol. i. p. 11. ed. 1753. CANTO XX v. 11. Revers’d.] Compar... ... had arrived at Rimini (the ancient Ariminum), and doubted whether he should prosecute the civil war. Tolle moras: semper nocuit differre pa...

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...tanding he had to encounter with so many obstacles. He still endeavored to prosecute his studies, and reasonable progressed in his edu cation. Still,... ...y, he was at a loss to know; he knew not whether to address Esq. Valeer in prose or in poetry, in a jocular or an argumentative manner, or whether he ... ...ficulty that he succeeded in persuading the master to let the youth go un prosecuted for the theft. Edward worked steadily along, and in time became ...

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...ight. The egoism of the Englishman is self- contained. He does not seek to proselytise. He takes no in- terest in Scotland or the Scotch, and, what is... ... less serious vein – for it was not Congreve’s verse, it was his exquisite prose, that I admired and sought to copy. Even at the age of thirteen I had... ...e far more honest; Jack gives us the animated po- etry, Burly the romantic prose, of similar themes; the one glances high like a meteor and makes a li... ... deal much in points of conduct and religion studied in the “dry light” of prose. Indirectly and as if against his will the same elements from time to... ...rous ardour? I wonder. Yet Clarissa has every quality that can be shown in prose, one alone excepted – pictorial or picture-making romance. While Robi... ...versity of the elements of truth and pleasure. Such are epics, and the few prose tales that have the epic weight. But as from a school of works, aping... ...he art of verse, an art of handicraft, and only comparable with the art of prose. For that heat and height of sane emotion *This paper, which does not... ...es, in any art, more often absent from them all; too seldom present in the prose novel, too frequently absent from the ode and epic. Fiction is the sa... ...o propose two additions, and read thus: the art of fictitious narrative in prose. Now the fact of the existence of the modern English novel is not to ...

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...- ment, in as far as it regards the technical change that came over modern prose romance, has never perhaps been ex- plained with any clearness. To do... ...although he had recognised that the novel was nothing else than an epic in prose, wrote in the spirit not of the epic, but of the drama. This is not, ... ...r that we shall find Scott himself, in so far as regards his conception of prose fiction and its purposes, surpassed in his own spirit, instead of tam... ...less artistic, that generally go hand in hand with it in the conception of prose romance. The purely critical spirit is, in most novels, paramount. At... ...es with one hand, and holding a book in the other. We are surprised at the prose style of Robert; that of Gilbert need surprise us no less; even Willi... ...e the dear lassie,” he sings, “because she loves me;” or, in the tongue of prose: “Finding an opportu- nity, I did not hesitate to profit by it, and e... ...can only be described by saying that he has not taken the trouble to write prose. I believe myself that it was selected principally because it was eas... ...although not without recollections of the marching measures of some of the prose in our English Old Testament. According to Whitman, on the other hand... ... time has arrived to essen- tially break down the barriers of form between Prose and Poetry . . . for the most cogent purposes of those great in- land...

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...lly beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one; but as prose writing bad been of great use to The Autobiography of Benjamin Fran... ...ned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my col lections ... ...He became, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 37 however, a pretty good prose writer. More of him hereafter. But, as I may not have occasion agai... ...ited plays; belong’d to the Witty Club there, and had written some pieces in prose and verse, which were printed in the Gloucester newspapers; thence ... ...ul Goodness! Con- trive day's business and take the res- olution of the day; prosecute the present study, and breakfast. } 8 9 10 11 Work. Noon. } { 1... ... his writing on which to found a censure and give him a lower character, his proselytes would be left at liberty to feign for him as great a variety o... ...ndeed small as a poet, Pope having damned his poetry in the Dunciad; but his prose was thought as good as any man’s. The Assembly finally finding the ...

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...“Bien, Mon- sieur”; and I felt the better for this scene of simple, waking prose. Seeking to calm myself still further, I went into my bed- room, adjo...

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...r, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is recognized as an important medical reformer. 1830 proved to be an important year for Holmes as a poet; while disap...

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...n that we must look,’ continued Mr Harold Smith, descending from poetry to prose as a lec- turer well knows how, and thereby showing the value of both...

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..., but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss; A fool might once himself alone expose; Now one in verse makes many more in prose.     ’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. In Poets as true Genius is but rare, True Taste as seldom is the Critic’s share; Both must alike from Heav’n derive their ...

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...on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales Lines Written in Evelyn’s Book on Coins Epigram (“Did Milton’s prose...”) Epigram (“Should Dennis print...”) Mr. J. M. Smythe Epigram on Mr. Moore’s Going to Law with Mr. Giliver Epigram (“A gold watch found...”) Epitaph on James Moore-Smythe A Question by Anonymous Epigram (“Grea...

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...yself a more general range among everything that I could remember, both in prose and verse. In this way, with an occasional break by relieving the... ...vil action, or to the judge for a mitigated sentence, if it is a criminal prosecution, on the two grounds I have mentioned. The same form is usuall... ...YEARS LATER It was in the winter of 1835 6 that the ship Alert, in the prosecution of her voyage for hides on the remote and almost unknown coas...