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Excerpt from Russian Lyrics: With Notes and Vocabulary
There are two short Appendices. The first deals with the Aspects of the verb. If Accent is the first lion in the path, Aspect is the second; yet to read Russian and to ignore Aspects, is to study Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. Hence the Notes are full of the words perfective and 'imperfective (for which, but for tradition, I should like to substitute 'aorist' and But this seemed insufficient; and therefore, in this Appendix, perfective verb, of the simplest kind, is compared in detail with its imperfective. A student who has mastered this will still have much to learn about Aspects, but I hope that he will have nothing to unlearn. For refreshment, he can turn to the second Appendix, which contains two translations by the Hon. Maurice Baring; I am grateful to him and his publishers for permission to reprint here these excellent renderings.
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