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Excerpt from Essays So, again, with the toil that the average learner must bestow in the often vain attempt to turn his Virgil and his Livy into respectable English prose. In nine cases out of ten he has read no English author who bears the faintest resemblance to an English prose version of either. A prose version of a poet can never reproduce all the poetry of the original, but we are agreed to demand Of our pupils the impossible. At least the unattainable might be brought a little nearer if the Student steeped himself in the prose of De Quincey at those moments of exaltation where, without passing the boundary line into poetry, it acquires mysterious cadences and haunting rhythms of its own, or puts into a lonely word the poignant pathos and unfathomed suggestiveness that we associate with the verse Of Virgil. De Quincey, too, in parts of The Revolt of the Tartars, Joan of Arc, or elsewhere, would supply a model for the rendering into English of Livy's gorgeous periods. There are magnificent examples of similar prose in Gibbon and Macaulay, but De Quincey has more variety, if less sustained excellence, than either historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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