Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 |
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Pagina 4
... imagination , and the in- comparable force of his style , were neither admired nor imitated . Arimanes had prevailed . The Divine Comedy was to that age what St. Paul's Cathedral was to Omai . The poor Otaheitean stared listlessly for a ...
... imagination , and the in- comparable force of his style , were neither admired nor imitated . Arimanes had prevailed . The Divine Comedy was to that age what St. Paul's Cathedral was to Omai . The poor Otaheitean stared listlessly for a ...
Pagina 7
... imagination have always been produced in times of political convulsion , as the richest vineyards and the sweetest flowers always grow on the soil which has been fertilized by the fiery deluge of a volcano . To DANTE 7.
... imagination have always been produced in times of political convulsion , as the richest vineyards and the sweetest flowers always grow on the soil which has been fertilized by the fiery deluge of a volcano . To DANTE 7.
Pagina 9
... imaginative and ob- servant mind . Nor did the religious spirit of the age tend less to this result than its political circumstances . Fanaticism is an evil , but it is not the greatest of evils . It is good that a people should be ...
... imaginative and ob- servant mind . Nor did the religious spirit of the age tend less to this result than its political circumstances . Fanaticism is an evil , but it is not the greatest of evils . It is good that a people should be ...
Pagina 11
... imagination with glorious and mysterious attributes ; she was en- throned among the highest of the celestial hierarchy ; Almighty Wisdom had assigned to her the care of the sinful and unhappy wanderer who had loved her with such a ...
... imagination with glorious and mysterious attributes ; she was en- throned among the highest of the celestial hierarchy ; Almighty Wisdom had assigned to her the care of the sinful and unhappy wanderer who had loved her with such a ...
Pagina 16
... imaginative , the most picturesque , and the most sweetly expressed . No person can have attended to the Divine ... imagination of the reader is so well pre- pared for it by the previous lines , that it appears perfectly natural and ...
... imaginative , the most picturesque , and the most sweetly expressed . No person can have attended to the Divine ... imagination of the reader is so well pre- pared for it by the previous lines , that it appears perfectly natural and ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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