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" Chorus ; it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the versification; even the volatile strength and delicacy of the ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and the reader is surprised to find a caput mortuum.— Author's Note,... "
The Odes of Horace: Translated Into English Verse with a Life and Notes - Page 31
by Horace - 1861 - 358 pages
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Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 440 pages
...excellent as at the first day. Such is a literal translation of this astonishing Chorus ; it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...translation, and the reader is surprised to find a caput mortuum.—Author's Note. Which he calls reason, and employs it only To live more beastlily than any...
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Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1824 - 438 pages
...excellent as at the first day. Such it a literal translation of this astonishing Churns ; it ia impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...versification ; even the volatile strength and delicacy nf the ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and the reader is surprised to find a cftput mortnum...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 56

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1860 - 700 pages
...quote, says : ' It is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the versiflcation : even the volatile strength and delicacy of the ideas...translation, and the reader is surprised to find a caput mortuum.1 But what a ' caput mortuum ! ' Observe the Italicised lines. - - - RM DE WITT, 13 Frankfort-street,...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 20

Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...still more accurate one of Mr. Hayward. Shelley adds to his the following note:—"It is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...translation, and the reader is surprised to find a caput mortnum." This book should be returned to the Library on or before the last date stamped below. A fine...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1839 - 408 pages
...as at the first day. Such is the literal translation of this astonishing Chorus ; it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the versification ; even the volatile strength and delioaey of the ideas escape in the cruelble of translation, and the reader is surprised to find a...
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The poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 1-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1849 - 406 pages
...excellent as at the first day. Such is the literal translation of this astonishing Chorus; it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...strength and delicacy of the ideas escape in the crucible uf translation, and the reader is surprised to find a capul mortuiim. — dulkor't Jfote. With reverence...
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The Poetical Works of Coleridge and Keats with a Memoir of Each ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1855 - 766 pages
...as at the first day. Such is the literal translation of this astonishing Chorus ' it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and the -emlei is surprised to find a caput raortuuri. — Auilwr'i Au<« My pathos certainly would make you...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 474 pages
...as at the first 'day. Such is the literal translation of this astonishing Chorus ; it is impossible to represent in another language the melody of the...the ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and tha reader is surprised to find a caput mortuum. — Author's Note. -. SCENES FROM FACST. 427 My pathos...
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The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volumes 3-4

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1855 - 772 pages
...translation of this astonishing Chorus t is impossible to represent in another language the melody »f the versification ; even the volatile strength and...ideas escape in the crucible of translation, and the •Muiet is surprised to find a caput raortuuri. — Auihor't fiaU My pathos certainly would make you...
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German Ballads and Poems

Ballads, German - 1860 - 312 pages
.... Zerboni 266 THE ROSE Lenau 268 "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REPRESENT, IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE, THE MELODY OP THE VERSIFICATION; EVEN THE VOLATILE STRENGTH AND...TRANSLATION, AND THE READER IS SURPRISED TO FIND A CAPVT MORTUUM." — SMley. GERMAN BALLADS AND POEMS. THE SLAVE SHIP. A SHIP bounds o'er the open sea,...
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