Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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Pagina 7
... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown ...
... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown ...
Pagina 19
... lines in which Dante has de- scribed the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in pro- portion ; so that the bank , which concealed him ...
... lines in which Dante has de- scribed the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . " His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in pro- portion ; so that the bank , which concealed him ...
Pagina 27
... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
Pagina 42
... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Of that celebrated proceed- ing we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Of that celebrated proceed- ing we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
Pagina 46
... line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his parliaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the restricted power which was absolutely necessary to his ...
... line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his parliaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the restricted power which was absolutely necessary to his ...
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