Agamemnon; La Saisiaz; Dramatic Idyls (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Agamemnon; La Saisiaz; Dramatic Idyls Briton who, Ben Jonson informs us, wrote The Life of the Emperor Anthony Pie, whom we now ac quiesce in as Antoninus Pius: for with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin. Yet there is, on all sides, much profession of respect for what Keats called vowelled Greek consonanted, one would expect; and, in a criticism upon a late ad mirable translation of something of my own, it was de plored that, in a certain verse corresponding in meas ure to the two hundred and fourteenth of the fourth Pythian Ode, neither Professor Jebb in his Greek, nor Mr. Browning in his English, could emulate that match lessly musical yovov zbgw kaz'xalcr'rov duopaw. Now, uh doubtedly, Seeing his son the fairest of men has more sense than sound to boast of; but then, would not an Italian roll us out Rimirando il figliuolo bellis simo degli uomini P whereat Pindar, no less than Pro fessor Jebb and IVII'. Browning, tplak'r-fipog ofxerat Tvxo'w. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.