Hence the literal English of the passage is: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill-side: all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out. The Strand Magazine - Page 6271898Full view - About this book
| 1900 - 532 pages
...or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." "Hence." says Mr. Collingwood, "the literal English of the passage is, 'It was evening,...the parrots; and the green turtles squeaked out.' " It should be added that even now that all is clear and we know precisely what the poem means it has... | |
| 1899 - 478 pages
...Shrike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." " Hence," says Mr. Collingwood, " the literal English of the passage is, ' It was evening,...the parrots; and the green turtles squeaked out.'" The Glossary was found among the author's boyhood papers, and hints at the composite mind of a mati... | |
| Belle Moses - 1910 - 322 pages
...Outgrabe (past*tense of the verb to outgribe; it is connected with the old verb to grike or shrike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked."...probably sun-dials on the top of the hill, and the borogoves were afraid that their nests would be undermined. The hill was probably full of the nests... | |
| Roger Simpson - 1994 - 204 pages
...the tradition of Barham. The mock poem is accompanied by a mock translation, which is still nonsense. "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching and boring holes into the hillside; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out. "33 It's a send-up... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...of Anglo-Saxon poetry," Carroll interpreted the words and gave the literal "translation" as follows: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were...the hill-side; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." (The Annotated Alice, ed. Martin Gardner, 1960.) 2 It is a far, far better... | |
| Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 644 pages
...OUTGRABE, past tense of the verb to OUTGRIBE (it is connected with the old verb to GRIKE or SHRIKE, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak.") "squeaked"...active badgers were scratching and boring holes in the hill side, all unhappy were the parrots, and the grave turtles squeaked out" There were probably sun... | |
| Allan A. Metcalf - 2004 - 230 pages
...you'll be quite content." of the words than Humpty Dumpty gives. Carroll's 1855 translation is: "1t was evening, and the smooth active badgers were scratching...the hill-side; all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." The six stanzas he added for Through the LookingGlass were more sparing... | |
| Angelica Shirley Carpenter - 2003 - 148 pages
...Charles's tongue-in-cheek imitation of Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. Helpfully he provided a translation: "It was evening, and the smooth active badgers were...the hill-side: all unhappy were the parrots; and the grave turtles squeaked out." Charles was thrilled when his uncle, Skeffington Lutwidge, came to Croft... | |
| Hermann Sudermann - 1899 - 654 pages
...Shtike, from which are derived "shriek" and "creak"), "squeaked." " Hence," says Mr. Collingwood, " the literal English of the passage is : 'It was evening,...the parrots ; and the green turtles squeaked out.' " As usual the " literal " English is very disappointing. The spiritual connotations of the passage... | |
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