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« on: May 02, 2009, 01:41:22 PM » |
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This citation, unattributed, shows up in the Wikipedia article on chiasmus. A Google search turned up nothing (it's probably off by a word or something). Anybody recognize it?
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« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2009, 01:57:56 PM » |
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I googled and came up with Pope.
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« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2009, 02:25:34 PM » |
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Yes, but the Pope citation (I think) actually belongs to the quote just above this one on the webpages (most or all of which are on chiasmus as a literary device), which is from the Essay on Man. I looked over the Essay on Man to see if maybe both quotes were from that source, but I couldn't find it. It sounds like Pope, though...
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« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2011, 05:48:45 AM » |
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I did the same search and can't find anything. LOVED this sentence though, eh? Maybe some savvy Wikipedia entry writer..? the world may never know... :)
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2011, 06:59:12 AM » |
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It sounds Biblical to me. Parallelism... I'll try to look it up.
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« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2011, 07:06:18 AM » |
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No "like an arrow" (kehec) in the Bible, sorry... There is "like arrows in the hand of a warrior"... So probably not.
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« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2011, 11:36:10 AM » |
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By Googling, I found it on someone's handout posted to their site for a Fall 2008 class, but it's not attributed in that, either. The text, without attribution, was added to the Wikipedia page on 28 June 2006.
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2011, 01:35:20 PM » |
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Maybe something Tolkien wrote? The use of alliteration sounds a little like his stuff. But I don't remember seeing it.
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2011, 04:25:00 PM » |
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I'd suggest asking the editor of the revision that added the sentence, but I'm afraid he or she looks to have been gone from Wikipedia since 2008. The frustrating thing is that, given what else this person added with attribution to that article (examples from Seneca and Cicero with translation), this one sentence is either an original one or an oversight.
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To anyone who is not a blockhead, all the sciences are interesting. - Marc Bloch
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« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2011, 04:09:47 PM » |
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I think it sounds like Wordsworth...
(In Tintern Abbey, he describes some one running like a roe, "more like a man flying from something that he dreads than one who sought the things he loved." No hares or arrows in those lines, but clearly the image a natural fear is in his storehouse of images...)
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2011, 02:58:09 AM » |
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It could've been in Latin or Greek originally, or another language. I tried Latin but nothing came up; however, there are so many variables I'd have to be very lucky to get it. I won't even try Greek (the different alphabet makes searches next to impossible).
It's bothering me, though! It really does have a lovely cadence.
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