 I have preserved even the measure, that inexorable hexameter, in which, it must be confessed, the motions of the English muse are not unlike those of a prisoner dancing to the music of his chains; and perhaps, as Dr. Johnson said of the dancing dog, the...  MLN. - Page 641908Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 798 pages
...But every reader will give a ready assent to the apologetic remarks of the translator in the preface. "I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable...dancing dog, ' the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all,'" There are in his two volumes of poems many other translations,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 144 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable...dancing dog, " the wonder is not that she should ' do it so well, but that she should do it at all." Esaias Tegner, the author of this poem, was bom in the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable...dancing dog, " the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all." year 1782. In 1799 he entered the University of Lund, as... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1842 - 642 pages
...track. In the words of Mr. Longfellow's Preface, "the motions of the English Muse [in the hexameter] are not unlike those of a prisoner dancing to the...dancing dog, ' the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all.' " ART. VI. — jJ Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure : that inexorable...dancing dog, " the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all." ?ar 17S2. In 1799 he entered the Univerty of Lund, as a... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1850 - 396 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure, that inexorable...of a prisoner dancing to the music of his chains; aud perhaps, as Dr. Johnson said of the dancing dog, ' the wonder is not that she should do it so well,... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...preserv'd even the measure: (hat inexorable hexameter, in which, it must be confessed, the molions of the English muse are not unlike those of a prisoner dancing to the music of his chai'mj and perhaps, äs Dr. Johiison said of the dancing dog „the wmder is not that she should do... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable...dancing dog, " the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all." Esaias Tegner, the author of this poem, was born in the... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure, that inexorable...dancing dog, ' the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all.'" We close our paper with feelings of gratitude and respect... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 504 pages
...author a wrong, by introducing into his work any supposed improvements or embellishments of my own. I have preserved even the measure ; that inexorable...dancing dog, " the wonder is not that she should do it so well, but that she should do it at all." year 1782. In 1799 he entered the University of Lund, as... | |
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