The Works of Xenophon, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Works of Xenophon, Vol. 1 Before long I hit upon Goldsmith. I think I owed this suggestion to my friend Professor Lewis Campbell. I believe there is a real resemblance between Goldsmith and Xenophon. But Goldsmith, in spite of his versatility, plain, simple, and human-hearted as he is, corresponds only to a side of Xenophon, whose idiom, not to speak of other differences, is at once more modern and more archaic. Goldsmith indeed, had he chanced to translate the Hellenica or any other portion of Xenophon, would doubtless have produced a masterpiece of English "written in a soft and Xenophontine manner" (molli et Xenophonteo sermonis genere conscriptum). Or, to take a more modern instance, could Mr. Ruskin, cujus sermo est ille quidem melle dulcior, have carried out a projected work of his on education (see his Introduction to Deucalion), he might have illustrated his life of Xenophon by translations or comments in a style as sweet as the original. Of my own attempt it would be out of place to speak further; but I seem to have discovered as the reward of endeavour some true obstacles to success. These I will briefly summarise. The difficulty of fairly translating Xenophon into readable English depends partly on the fundamental differences between Greek and English, and partly on the peculiarities of Xenophon´s own style. Of the first I need not speak. 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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