Joseph Addison's Ovid: An Adaptation of the Metamorphoses in the Augustan Age of English LiteratureGardez!, 2003 - 259 pages |
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... forms an entire line , tries to imitate the polyptoton ( ' a Father - a Father's care ' ) , which is , however , less effective in English . The usage of Germanic and Roman synonyms ( ' Parent ' - ' Father ' ) further manifests ...
... forms an entire line , tries to imitate the polyptoton ( ' a Father - a Father's care ' ) , which is , however , less effective in English . The usage of Germanic and Roman synonyms ( ' Parent ' - ' Father ' ) further manifests ...
Page 93
... forms a Latinism and , hence , a typical phenomenon of eighteenth - century poetic diction . The most notable fact about Addison's epithet is that he uses it in its original Latin meaning of good breed or stock ' 310 In the second line ...
... forms a Latinism and , hence , a typical phenomenon of eighteenth - century poetic diction . The most notable fact about Addison's epithet is that he uses it in its original Latin meaning of good breed or stock ' 310 In the second line ...
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... forms a final sentence in Addison's translation : " To make him proof against the burning ray ' . Here , ' proof ' appropriately translates the Latin patientia , while the expression ' burning ray ' forms a periphrasis of the more ...
... forms a final sentence in Addison's translation : " To make him proof against the burning ray ' . Here , ' proof ' appropriately translates the Latin patientia , while the expression ' burning ray ' forms a periphrasis of the more ...
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