A History of Classical Scholarship ...: The eighteenth century in Germany, and the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States of AmericaAt the University Press, 1908 |
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Seite 436 - Notes of a Twelve Years' Voyage of Discovery in the First Six Books of the /Eneis.
Seite 431 - Two Thousand Engravings on Wood from Ancient Originals, illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks and Romans. By A.
Seite 476 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Seite 451 - It needeth more than a single denization, being a double stranger; sprung from the stock of the ancient Romans, but bred in the new world, of the rudeness whereof it cannot but participate, especially having wars and tumults to bring it to light instead of the Muses.
Seite vi - ... country at the present day, and what are their prospects of retaining that position ? The most salient feature in the intellectual development of this century has been the progress of science. And this century is the first since the revival of learning in which a serious challenge has been thrown down to the defenders of the humanistic tradition. But I think it will be found that the position of humanism in this country at the close English of the century is much stronger than it was at the j^^fe18...
Seite 58 - BC, and endeavours to prove the four following points: — '(1) The Homeric poems were composed without the aid of writing, which in 950 BC was either wholly unknown to the Greeks, or not yet employed by them for literary purposes. The poems were handed down by oral recitation, and in the course of that process suffered many alterations, deliberate or accidental, by the rhapsodes. (2) After the poems had been written down circa 550 BC, they suffered still further changes. These were deliberately...
Seite 80 - The poems out of which what we call the history of the Roman Kings was resolved into a prose narrative, were different from the nenia...
Seite 132 - ... or less independent of all the rest. His main test is the inconsistency of detail. A primitive poet, he argued, would have a vivid picture before his mind, and would reproduce it with close consistency. He also affirms that many of the lays are utterly distinct in general spirit' '. Lachmann was the true founder of a strict and methodical system of textual criticism.
Seite 131 - ... of the last five years of his life, from the autumn of 1845 to November 1850. Fortunately, he had the full use for many months of the two Leyden MSS. His native sagacity, guided and sharpened by long and varied experience, saw at a glance their relations to each other and to the original from which they were derived, and made clear the arbitrary way in which the common texts had been constructed. His zeal warming as he advanced, one truth after another revealed itself to him, so that at length...