The Lusiad of Luis de Camoens, Closely Translated: With a Portrait of the Poet, a Compendium of His Life, an Index to the Principal Passages of His Poem, a View of the Fountain of Tears, and Marginal and Annexed Notes, Original and Select
The Lusiad of Luis de Camoens, Closely Translated: With a Portrait of the Poet, a Compendium of His Life, an Index to the Principal Passages of His Poem, a View of the Fountain of Tears, and Marginal and Annexed Notes, Original and Select
Excerpt from The Lusiad of Luis De Camoens, Closely Translated: With a Portrait of the Poet, a Compendium of His Life, an Index to the Principal Passages of His Poem, a View of the "Fountain of Tears," and Marginal and Annexed Notes, Original and Select In quantity the original varies as to the number of syllables - and in attempting an imitation in a different language-the employment of nearly as many cannot, he trusts, be objected to. From ten to twelve or even fourteen syllables occur in one line of the original, and ...
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Excerpt from The Lusiad of Luis De Camoens, Closely Translated: With a Portrait of the Poet, a Compendium of His Life, an Index to the Principal Passages of His Poem, a View of the "Fountain of Tears," and Marginal and Annexed Notes, Original and Select In quantity the original varies as to the number of syllables - and in attempting an imitation in a different language-the employment of nearly as many cannot, he trusts, be objected to. From ten to twelve or even fourteen syllables occur in one line of the original, and thus, although ten syllables is the usual quantity in Ottava Rima when imitated In English - more has been required in translating here the lines of the Lusiad By adopting a similar quantity, a 'tone of antiquity seems to be the result, and not unsuited, as the trans lator imagines, to the age of the original poem, since this is not at all affected, but the result of close imitation. It will still be found that there are fewer syllables in this translation than there are in the Original. In assimi lating the English stanzas to the sound as well as to the sense of the Portuguese; as, for instance in the CXIX stanza of Canto III, the necessity for as many syllables must be Obvious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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