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As the Prince of Abyssinia said to his tutor, "Enough; you have convinced me that no man can be a poet," so Mr Arnold went some way to prove that no man can translate Homer. Tennyson had the lowest opinion of hexameters as an English metre for serious purposes. "These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer!" Lord Tennyson says, "German hexameters he disliked even more than English."
"Ask not Austria why, 'midst princes, Still her banner rises highest; Ask as well the strong-wing'd eagle, Why to heaven he soars the highest." "The eagle," said the expounder of dark sayings, "is the cognizance of our noble lord the Archduke of his royal Grace, I would say and the eagle flies the highest and nearest to the sun of all the feathered creation."
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