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 1   5  |           translated into graceful English verse by Dean Milman, and
 2   5  |       Milman, and is known to many English readers. The legend of Agastya
 3 End  |          beautifully rendered into English by Sir Edwin Arnold. On
 4 Epi  |        Maha-bharata therefore into English verse is neither possible
 5 Epi  |            then been placed before English readers by distinguished
 6 Epi  |       translation of the Epic into English prose has also been published
 7 Epi  |        unabridged translation into English verse; and that these translations,
 8 Epi  | endeavoured to put them before the English reader as they have been
 9 Epi  |     couplets in about two thousand English couplets.~The excellent
10 Epi  |          the historical truth into English. In this process Homer must
11 Epi  |    sonorous Sanscrit poetry in the English translation. Much of tile
12 Epi  |         endeavoured to choose some English metre which is familiar
13 Epi  |           which is familiar to the English ear, and which would reproduce
14 Epi  |       about the Maha-bharata. into English, for without such reproduction
15 Epi  |         several books in different English metres, I felt convinced
16 Epi  |            than any other familiar English metre known to me.~I have
17 Epi  |            recited a verse in this English metre and a Sloka in presence
18 Epi  |        them with the scheme of the English metre selected.~It would
19 Epi  |           able to transfer into my English that sweep and majesty of
20 Epi  |  new-coined phrase, in which modem English poetry is rich, would scarcely