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" From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equalling the Iliad in length and completeness, nay, if we can forget for a moment all that we in our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. "
Wisconsin Journal of Education - Page 287
1878
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 110

American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...tradition alone, and preserving all the features of a perfect metre, and of a more ancient language. From the mouths of the aged, an Epic poem has been...learned to call beautiful — not less beautiful." This Finnish Epic, called Kalewala, will, he says, claim its place as the fifth national Epic of the...
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Suggestions for the Assistance of Officers in Learning the Languages of the ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Altaic languages - 1854 - 162 pages
...Castren, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been...beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer. But if the poet may take his colours from that nature by which he is surrounded,...
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The Languages of the Seat of War in the East: With a Survey of the Three ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Altaic languages - 1855 - 268 pages
...Castren, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been...all that we in our youth learned to call beautiful, of a beauty essentially similar. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer. But if the...
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Lectures on the Science of Language, Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1861 - 424 pages
...Castr^n, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been...beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer. But if the poet may take his colours from that nature by which he is surrounded,...
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Lectures on the Science of Language: Delivered at the Royal ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1862 - 454 pages
...Castren, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been...beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer. But if the poet may take his colors from that nature by which he is surrounded,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 27

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1868 - 846 pages
...produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equaling the Iliad in length and completeness, nay, if we can...a moment all that we in our youth learned to call beantifnl, not lees beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer. But if the poet...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 27

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1868 - 858 pages
...Castr6n, and Kellgren, receiving hence a powerful impulse, have produced results truly surprising. From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equaling the Iliad in length and completeness, nay, if we can forget for a moment all that we in our...
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The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic with a Literal ..., Volume 1

Archibald Clerk - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1870 - 590 pages
...tradition alone, and preserving all the features of a perfect metre, and of a more ancient language. . . . From the mouths of the aged, an epic poem has been...beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamainen was not a Homer. But if the poet may take his colours from that nature by which he is surrounded,...
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The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a literal tr. into ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...tradition alone, and preserving all the features of a perfect metre, and of a more ancient language. . From the mouths of the aged, an epic poem has been...beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamainen was not a Homer. But if the poet may take his colours from that nature by which -he is...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 24

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...tradition alone, and preserving all the features of a perfect metre, and of a more ancient language. From the mouths of the aged, an Epic Poem has been...learned to call beautiful — not less beautiful." This Finnish Epic, called Kalewala, will, he says, claim its place as the fifth national Epic of the...
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