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“I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.”

Humans Sound Impossible Poet Equal Tasks Originals Ancient Venture Rhyme Translations Closing Ingenuity Couplets

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.”

Source: The Essential Writings

“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”

World War Names Sound Hours Honest Trump Fame Skills Equal Ears Dear Guides Rings Ease Loud Fearful Joyful Applause Happier Times

Author:Joseph Hopkinson

“By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.”

Knows Mind Sound Music Fire Lovers Equal Lows Wounds Warrior Temper Animated Bleeding

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author

“So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.”

Source: Oil!

“Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.”

People Men Believe Has Beens Difficult Sound Amount Equal Incredibles Average Spread Flesh Statements Delusion Vegetables Surprising Vegetarianism Average Man

Book:Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

Source: Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg