My study
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共 77 题- MY STUDY WINDOWS
- BY
- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
- PREFATORY NOTE.
- TO
- PROFESSOR F. J. CHILD.
- MY DEAR CHILD,--
- J. R. LOWELL.
- CONTENTS.
- PAGE
- MY GARDEN ACQUAINTANCE 1
- A GOOD WORD FOR WINTER 24
- ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS 54
- A GREAT PUBLIC CHARACTER 83
- CARLYLE 115
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN 150
- THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES GATES PERCIVAL 178
- THOREAU 193
- SWINBURNE’S TRAGEDIES 210
- CHAUCER 227
- LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS 290
- EMERSON, THE LECTURER 375
- POPE 385
- MY GARDEN ACQUAINTANCE.
- A GOOD WORD FOR WINTER.
- The Scottish poet Grahame, in his “Sabbath,” says manfully:--
- Ovid heightens the picture by a single touch:--
- ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS.
- A GREAT PUBLIC CHARACTER.[4]
- CARLYLE.[5]
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES GATES PERCIVAL.
- THOREAU.
- SWINBURNE’S TRAGEDIES.
- CHAUCER.[7]
- Sometimes they thrust in a word or words that hobble the verse:--
- Sometimes they give a wrong word identical in meaning:--
- Sometimes they change the true order of the words:--
- In the stanza before this we have,--
- Nay, sometimes it twinkles roguishly through his very tears, as in the
- LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS.[27]
- Of course, it should read,--
- In this case, also, the true readings are clear enough:--
- This should read--
- We will give one more scrap of Mr. Halliwell’s text:--
- In the same play (p. 44) are these lines:--
- He has overlooked some strange blunders. What is the meaning of
- We hardly need say that it should be
- Vol. III. pp. 47, 48:--
- Thus Lord Derby. Chapman renders:--
- Lord Derby’s version is nearer:--
- We give one more passage from Chapman:--
- He is great, too, in single phrases and lines:--
- Compare Chapman (Iliads, xviii. 480):--
- The original has “there.” Read,--
- Mr. Hazlitt prints,--
- Surely we should read:--
- But we will cite Mr. Bayes himself:--
- On page 93 we have,--
- The note on _fryed_ is,--
- Mr. Hazlitt’s note is,--
- Pages 251, 252:--
- And here is Mr. Hazlitt’s annotation on the word _wylle_:--
- We gather a few more of these flowers of exposition and etymology:--
- We will ask Mr. Hazlitt to compare the text, as he prints it, with
- EMERSON THE LECTURER.
- POPE.
- In “Windsor Forest” we find the same thing again:--
- And so, when the conflict begins:--
- The speech of Thalestris, too, with its droll climax, is equally good:--
- So also Belinda’s account of the morning omens:--
- The idea of the goddess of Spleen, and of her palace, where
- But this comes in as a corollary to what went just before:--
- THE END.
- The evening lamps looks=> The evening lamp looks {pg 51}
- Que s’oblida e s laissa cazer=> Que s’oblida es laissa cazer {pg 347}
- FOOTNOTES: