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 2871878Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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